Mr. Arvind Gupta, Head Digital India Foundation on UK questions India vax certificate.

0:000 secondsme let me bring in edmond on that one as someone who's who i often described as one of the foremost voices when it comes to digital policies in india how 0:077 secondsdo we read this situation where the united kingdom says we are yet to approve the certification mechanism of india do they not believe the 0:1515 secondscertification mechanisms of india so uh with due respect to professor shetty let me first explain india actually never started with a process 0:2424 secondsthat in fact the uk had the paper process and then you know when you got the certification a paper card was issued to you and then 0:3333 secondsin the uh eventually they have migrated to an nhs over digital covert pass application india from day one um bhupendra and 0:4141 secondsprofessor shetty for your knowledge and for the knowledge of viewers was uh on march 1st when it became and i got vaccinated on march 1st what you had 0:4949 secondsto do is you had to go to the covent portal or or an app that was linked to cohen coven is a platform 0:5656 secondsand you had to put your radha number get a date of birth uh you know synchronized so there is a link between your name your adaha number and you know it 1:031 minute, 3 secondsverifies all of that and then you you book a slot so it is not there is 97 98 people are coming through that process 1:111 minute, 11 secondsthere is a offline process also given india scale um that we have you know some batch processes that uh dr shetty 1:191 minute, 19 secondsis describing that people who you know walk in and are assisted by somebody else but still they need it comes from adhar which is a a digital the one of 1:281 minute, 28 secondsthe global standards for digital items so why should the you cannot believe it then you tell me when if dr shetty argues that it's a procedural issue how 1:361 minute, 36 secondscan it be a procedural issue i'm sorry to say that but we have to call it out this is nothing but two things i think changing goal posts 1:431 minute, 43 secondswe first heard there's a problem uh when when covert shield was not even included in the list of approved vaccine at that point in time it was um you know there 1:521 minute, 52 secondswas something wrong with supposedly wrong with the indian uh vaccine which is which i thought was it you know it was so funny that the vaccine changes 2:002 minuteswhen the moment it reaches india or something like that it's the same formula and and as a doctor said he said it was also exported in the first few months from india 2:082 minutes, 8 secondssecond is the issue of technology i think we are we are doubting uh one of the best tech platforms that is out there uh which 2:172 minutes, 17 secondsgives you a a qr certified code right there and then the moment you get vaccinated within a few minutes you can get your printed certificate or you can 2:262 minutes, 26 secondsget it on your app on your whatsapp on on your you know the travel app the arabic setu app everything it's available instant dna this is real time 2:352 minutes, 35 secondsuh from and it is the same platform which goes from booking to issuing the certificate so there is no 2:412 minutes, 41 secondsleakage in between and i think um yeah then why the problem then why the problem dr swindler is live with us too