  The COVID-19 pandemic has so far accounted for reported 5.5M deaths
worldwide, with 8.7% of these coming from India. The pandemic exacerbated the
weakness of the Indian healthcare system. As of January 20, 2022, India is the
second worst affected country with 38.2M reported cases and 487K deaths.
According to epidemiologists, vaccines are an essential tool to prevent the
spread of the pandemic. India's vaccination drive began on January 16, 2021
with governmental policies being introduced to prioritize different populations
of the society. Through the course of the vaccination drive, multiple new
policies were also introduced to ensure that vaccines are readily available and
vaccination coverage is increased. However, at the same time, some of the
government policies introduced led to unintended inequities in the populations
being targeted. In this report, we enumerate and analyze the inequities that
existed in India's vaccination policy drive, and also compute the effect of the
new policies that were introduced. We analyze these potential inequities not
only qualitatively but also quantitatively by leveraging the data that was made
available through the government portals. Specifically, (a) we discover
inequities that might exist in the policies, (b) we quantify the effect of new
policies introduced to increase vaccination coverage, and (c) we also point the
data discrepancies that exist across different data sources.
