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While the special drive is being conducted across the state, the focus will be on those areas where the sub-centres are lying vacant. This is followed by Dehradun with 54 vacant sub-centres covering 418 villages. DEHRADUN: The state health department launched a special immunization drive on Monday to cover children of 3,109 villages under 370 sub-centres where there are no auxiliary nurse midwives ANMs ).ANMs are tasked with implementing several health schemes of the government and creating awareness among locals. As many as 71 sub-centres covering 812 villages lie vacant here. Hence, we have launched a special drive to ensure 100% coverage.”Dr Saroj Naithani, state nodal officer for immunization programme, said, “We aim to increase the immunization coverage of under-five children to at least 99% by November..