Source: The Hindu
Context:
India’s flagship CoWIN digital vaccination portal has been unavailable since early August 2025, disrupting access to COVID-19 vaccination certificates. Citizens who require vaccination records for travel, employment, and medical purposes are facing difficulties.
About CoWIN Portal
- CoWIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network) is a government digital platform for:
- Registration
- Scheduling
- Tracking
- Certification of COVID-19 vaccinations.
- Serves as an end-to-end public health management tool from the national to the vaccinator level.
Launch & Ministry
- Launched: January 2021 (during India’s vaccination drive).
- Nodal Ministry: Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).
Aim
- Provide a transparent, efficient, and real-time system for vaccination delivery.
- Ensure equitable access, identity verification, dose tracking, and certification for every beneficiary.
Key Features
- Five Modules:
- Orchestration module (overall management).
- Vaccination cold-chain module (logistics).
- Citizen registration module (self & bulk registration).
- Vaccinator module (session management).
- Certificate, feedback & adverse-event reporting module.
- Integration: Available via CoWIN website, Aarogya Setu app, UMANG app, DigiLocker.
- Authentication: OTP, biometric, and demographic verification.
- Real-Time Tracking: Beneficiaries, doses, wastage, and coverage monitored at national, state, district, sub-district levels.
