Machine Learning Algorithm to Identify Hesitancy Towards Covid-19 Vaccination Among the Rural Citizens Under E-Governance Initiatives

Abstract

The Indian Government has taken massive initiatives to control the pandemic virus of COVID-19. Recently, the Government has decided to begin the process of a large-scale vaccination programme to create an end to the crisis due to COVID-19. However, vaccination is found to be the major solution as suggested by various health care experts to stop the widespread of this deadly virus, hesitancy towards getting vaccinated is found to be more in the rural villages of India. The process of getting vaccinated was not made compulsory by the government, but still there exists skepticism in minds of rural citizens towards COVID-19 vaccination. Text Analytics has been implemented to identify the exact emotions among rural citizens towards COVID Vaccinations. Hence the present research study has identified the major reasons for hesitancy towards getting vaccinated for COVID-19 using machine learning techniques. The researchers of the current study have also measured the emotions and signs of sentiments of the rural citizens on COVID-19 vaccination.