What makes refrigerators and motor vehicles important for vaccination?

Districts that have a higher proportion of households with more refrigerators are more vaccinated than districts that have a smaller number of refrigerators

In the socio-economic-caste-census conducted a decade ago, one of the criteria included in the deprivation list was the availability of refrigerators in the household; other criteria for asset holding were the presence of a motor vehicle and a mobile phone. Since the release of SECC data in 2015, the government has been dispensing benefits, like health insurance, to households without any of these assets.

Although the vaccination policy has been free for all from June 21, a Business Standard analysis shows a correlation between refrigerators, motor vehicles and vaccination.

On June 21, the government celebrated a new feat of vaccinating