COVID-19 India vaccination phase 3: Server glitch, endless wait for OTPs and other issues faced by millions who tried to register on D-day

Confusion, server glitches…more confusion, failure to receive OTP…some more confusion: these were just some of the challenges Indians faced today, as the central government officially kickstarted country’s largest vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus. To be completely fair, server glitches due to peak rise in traffic at around 4PM (as per government’s own record) were expected. And in its defence, the government also managed to fix these issues in time (again, as per its own record). But the real issue, that most Indians were probably not expecting to deal with in the middle of this life and death situation, was confusion.