Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly become a global pandemic taking more than 1.7 million lives. Many developed countries had started their vaccination drive, India is not far behind but still not much is known about the willingness to get vaccinated in India.1 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world faced a novel infectious disease, for which there currently is no treatment or herd immunity2 . The pandemic poses a serious threat to our health and well-being (WHO, 2020) and researchers are racing to develop and test vaccines against COVID-19 (Callaway, 2020).3