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Farmers from Punjab faced
water cannons and broke
police barriers at the State’s bor-
der with Haryana as they
pushed towards the national
Capital on Thursday on their
“Delhi Chalo” march against
the Centre’s farm laws.
By late evening, a large
group of them had reached the
road toll plaza at Panipat, about
100 km from Delhi. Bhartiya
Kisan Union (Haryana) leader
Gurnam Singh said the pro-
testers planned to spend the
night there and will resume the
march the next morning.
At the Punjab-Haryana
Shambhu border, police and
Punjab farmers in their tractor-
trolleys were locked in a con-
frontation for a couple of hours
in the morning.
Police made announce-
ments on loudspeakers asking
the farmers assembled on the
Punjab side to disperse. But as
protesters tried to push through
barricades, the Haryana Police
used a water cannon and
lobbed teargas shells. Farmers
chucked some steel barricades
into the Ghaggar river from the
bridge where they had been
stopped.
Apart from this con-
frontation in Ambala district,
there were face-offs between
the protesters and police in
Haryana’s Sirsa, Kurukshetra,
Fatehabad and Jind districts
bordering Congress-run
Punjab.
Later, Haryana Police DGP
Manoj Yadava praise the police
for acted with “great restraint”
against Punjab-based farmers
who broke barricades during
their “Delhi Chalo” march. He
said the farmers took an
aggressive stand and tried to
disturb law and order by “pelt-
ing stones” at police at many
places. Some police personnel
sustained injuries and police
and private vehicles were dam-
aged, Yadava added.
Police had placed cement
and steel barricades and parked
trucks on the road to stop the
farmers’ tractor-trolleys, some
of them laden with food for the
planned two-day protest, which
many felt could extend further.
But a few hours later, at most
border-points, the farmers were
let through.
At Shambhu, a few pro-
testers initially managed to
cross the barricades on foot.
Later, police eased the block-
ade, allowing the tractors to
proceed on the road to Delhi,
200 km away.
But barricades were set up
at other points on this
Amritsar-Delhi highway that
passes through Haryana.
At Karnal, there was anoth-
er face-off and police again
used a water cannon.
Police used water cannons
also against protesters trying to
enter Kaithal district, and at
Khanauri border where farm-
ers were protesting under the
banner of Bhartiya Kisan
Union (Ekta-Ugarhan).
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Ready to maintain law and
order situation in view of
the “Delhi Chalo” protest
march by farmers against the
Centre’s new farm laws, the
Delhi Police personnel have
been deployed in large num-
bers in the border areas of the
national Capital.
Around five sand-laden
trucks were stationed at Singhu
border and police were seen
putting barbed wires and boul-
der barricades to stop farmers’
trolleys heading towards Delhi.
This is the first time that
the city police has stationed
trucks filled with sand at bor-
der points. Police said the
border has not been sealed but
they are checking all vehicles
entering the national Capital.
Earlier, the Delhi Police
had rejected requests from
various farmers’ organisations
to protest in the national
Capital against the Centre’s
new farm laws on November
26 and 27. The police had on
Tuesday said legal action
would be taken against the
protesting farmers if they come
to the city for any gathering
amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The farmers are scheduled to
reach Delhi on
Thursday through five high-
ways connecting the city as
part of their “Delhi Chalo”
march call.
Delhi Police chief SN
Shrivastava visited at Tikri
and Singhu border to take
stock of the situation.
“Regarding farmer organ-
isations march to Delhi on
November 26, 27. All the
requests received from various
Farmer Organisations regard-
ing protest in Delhi on 26 and
27 November have been reject-
ed and this has already been
communicated to the organis-
ers,” the New Delhi DCP had
tweeted.
“Please co-operate with
Delhi Police in ensuring no
gathering in Delhi amid coro-
navirus, failing which legal
action will be initiated as per
law,” it had said.
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New Delhi: Delhi Metro
services from neighbouring
cities to the national Capital
will remain suspended on
Friday in view of the ‘’Delhi
chalo’’ protest march by
farmers against the Centre’s
new farm laws, officials said.
However, metro services will
be available from Delhi
towards the NCR sections.
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Delivering a strong message
to Pakistan on the 12th
anniversary of the 26/11
Mumbai terror attack, Prime
Minister Naredra Modi on
Thursday called it the biggest
strike ever on India and said
the country can never forget
the wounds inflicted by ter-
rorists from Pakistan.
Expressing gratitude to
security personnel, the Prime
Minister said India is fighting
terrorism with new policies.
“On this day in 2008, terrorists
from Pakistan attacked
Mumbai. Many, including for-
eign citizens, policemen, died.
I pay tributes to them,” he said
“India is now fighting ter-
rorism with a new policy and
a new process,” Modi said.
The 2008 terror attack had
claimed the lives of 165 people
and injured about 300.
“India cannot forget
wounds of Mumbai terror
attacks. Today India is fighting
terrorism with new policies. I
also bow down to our securi-
ty personnel averting attacks
like Mumbai and giving befit-
ting reply to terrorism,” the
Prime Minister said while
addressing the All India
Presiding Officers Conference
here, via video conferencing.
The PM’s address made to
celebrate Constitution Day,
also hailed the robustness of the
Indian Constitution despite
“attempts made to destroy its
spirit” during the Emergency in
the 1970s.
“From what should be the
role of the three wings of our
Constitution to its spirit, every-
thing is enshrined in the
Constitution. Though we did
witness how attempts were
made against the dignity of sep-
aration of power in the 1970s…
but the answer for that came
from the Constitution itself as
decorum and separation of
power is described in it,” Modi
said in his video conference
address.
Modi said after the
Emergency, the system of
checks and balances has gone
from strength to strength.
“All the three wings of the
Constitution — the executive,
legislature and judiciary - have
learnt many things from that
dark phase and moved on,” the
PM sought to say.
External Affairs Minister S
Jaishankar for his part said
India will keep the global spot-
light “firmly” on cross-border
terrorism and on the epicentre
of the global menace, in an
apparent reference to Pakistan.
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British drugmaker
AstraZeneca has admitted
to a manufacturing error which
accidently led to a highly
promising result.
After disclosing promising
results from its Covid-19 vac-
cine trial earlier this week,
AstraZeneca has now admitted
to a manufacturing error by a
contractor.
The error came to light
after AstraZeneca, which is
developing the potential Covid-
19 vaccine in partnership with
Oxford University, revealed
different efficacy results from
two different dose
regimes.
But that is only half of the
story. As result of the error only
half of the proposed dose of
vaccine was administered to a
group of people, while the
other group was given the full
dose.
In the two different dose
regimens vaccine efficacy was
90 per cent in one and 62 per
cent in the other.
The higher efficacy regime
used a halved first dose and
standard second dose. Two
full doses showed lower effi-
cacy.
In other words, said the
biotechnology company, in the
low-dose group, the vaccine
appeared to be 90 per cent
effective. In the group that got
two full doses, the vaccine
effective. Combined, the drug-
makers said, the vaccine
effective.
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In a daring strike at least three
car-borne terrorists, believed
to be the cadre of Jaish-e-
Mohammad (JeM), targeted a
quick reaction team (QRT) of
the Indian Army on the out-
skirts of Srinagar in which
two grievously injured soldiers
attained martyrdom on
Thursday. The attack coincid-
ed with the 12th anniversary of
the Mumbai terror attack.
This is the second major
terror strike along the National
Highway in the last one week
on the security forces.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan
Army initiated an “unpro-
voked” ceasefire along the Line
of Control in Degwar, Qasba
and Kirni sectors of Poonch by
targeting forward villages with
mortar shelling. A junior com-
missioned officer, injured dur-
ing the ceasefire violation by
Pakistan along LoC in Jammu
and Kashmir’s Poonch district,
succumbed to his injuries.
Four JeM terrorists were
neutralised by the joint teams
of security forces near Ban
Toll Plaza along the Jammu
Srinagar National Highway in
Nagrota on November 19.
These four JeM terrorists had
sneaked inside the Indian ter-
ritory via a cross border tunnel
from the Samba sector.
The martyred jawans have
been identified as Sepoy Ratan
of 163 Battalion Territorial
Army and Sepoy Deshmukh of
101 Battalion Territorial
Army.
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The phase-three human clin-
ical trial of Hyderabad-
based Bharat Biotech’s indige-
nously developed anti-coron-
avirus vaccine candidate
Covaxin began at the AIIMS
here on Thursday. Dr MV
Padma Srivastava, the chief of
Neurosciences Centre at the
premier institute, and three
other volunteers received the
first dose.
The vaccine would be
given to around 15,000 volun-
teers at the AIIMS over the next
few days. The first dose of 0.5
ml intramuscular injection was
given to four volunteers.
They were under obser-
vation for two hours and will
be monitored for the next few
days, said an official at the
AIIMS.
As part of the trial appli-
cation, a dose of 0.5 ml would
be given on day 0 and on day
28. The phase-three ran-
domised double-blind placebo-
controlled multi-centre trial
would cover 28,500 subjects
aged 18 years and above.
New Delhi: Schools in Delhi
will not reopen till the
Government is convinced
about students’ safety, Delhi
Health Minister Satyendra
Jain said on Thursday.
New Delhi: A door-to-door
survey conducted under the
instruction of the Centre to
identify and isolate Covid-19
infected people in Delhi’s
containment zones and
densely populated pockets
threw up 1,178 positive cases
with a positivity rate of 6.4
per cent, officials said.
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At least five people were
killed and several others
injured in Tamil Nadu as severe
cyclone Nivar made a landfall
around 2.30 am with winds of
up to 130 kilometre per hour
into the Puducherry coast on
Thursday. The fierce winds
uprooted trees and toppled
electricity pylons while down-
pour lashed parts of the region,
causing flash floods in several
areas in Tamil Nadu and
Puducherry.
Airport operations,
Metrorail and bus transport
resumed after 14 hours.
According to the India
Meteorological Department
(IMD), Tamil Nadu is likely to
receive another spell of very
heavy rainfall as a fresh low
pressure area is expected to
form in the Bay of
Bengal from November 29
onwards.
Meanwhile, as the intensi-
ty of the storm weakened, sec-
tion 144 of CrPC imposed in
Puducherry was revoked.
According to initial estimates,
thousand acres of paddy crops
have been destroyed in south-
ern States. While the damage
assessment is on, the State
Governments said they were
working on “war-footing” amid
heavy rainfall and flooding in
many parts.
Five people have lost their
lives and several others injured
due to the cyclonic storm in
Tamil Nadu, whereas no loss of
life has been reported from
Puducherry. On its way the
cyclone also damaged several
houses, uprooted trees and
power lines in Tamil Nadu’s
Cuddalore, Marakkanam and
in Puducherry also.
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The Directorate General of
Civil Aviation (DGCA) on
Thursday extended the sus-
pension of scheduled com-
mercial international flight
operations to and from India
till December 31 in view of the
coronavirus pandemic and
planes will fly only on select
routes on a case-to-case
basis.
The restrictions are not
applicable to international
cargo operations and flights
approved by the DGCA.
“In partial modification of
circular dated 26-06-2020, the
competent authority has fur-
ther extended the validity of
circular issued on the subject
cited above regarding sched-
uled international commercial
passenger services to/from
India till December 31, 2020,”
the DGCA said in a notifica-
tion issued on Thursday.
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The Pioneer’s Resident
Editor (Lucknow) Vijay
Prakash Singh lost his elder
brother Shiv Prakash Singh to
Covid-19 on Thursday. Shiv
Prakash Singh, 62, was admit-
ed to Sanjay Gandhi Post-
graduate Institute of Medical
Sciences here.
Singh, a businessman, is
survived by wife and two sons.
Singh was tested Covid
positive after Diwali and was
admitted to SGPGIMS on
October 16. As his condition
deteriorated he was shifted to
ICU where he breathed his last.
Family members said cre-
mation will take place on
Friday at electric crematorium
as per the Covid guidelines.
The Pioneer family con-
doles the death and prays to the
God to give courage to the
bereaved family to bear the
irreparable loss.
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad Police
Commissioner Anjani Kumar
on Thursday said that a small
group is working to create
communal trouble in the city
during the ongoing elections
for Greater Hyderabad
Municipal Corporation
(GHMC).
The police chief appealed
to people not to believe the
rumours and fake news being
spread by the group on social
media and help the police in
exposing them.
Hours after Chief Minister
K. Chandrasekhar Rao direct-
ed the police to deal with an
iron hand those conspiring to
create communal tensions and
clashes, the police chief made
an appeal through social
media.
In two videos posted on
Twitter, the commissioner
made the appeal in Telugu
and Urdu.
“Hyderabad city is in elec-
tion mode. Every party and
their leaders are coming to you
to tell what their schemes and
programmes are. This is the
spirit of democracy. In this sit-
uation a small group is work-
ing to disturb the communal
situation in the city. Some of
them are not very happy with
the growth of Hyderabad,” he
said.
Anjani Kumar pointed out
that during the last seven years
Hyderabad earned a good
name not just in India but
across the world as big com-
panies like Boeing, Apple and
Facebook came to the city.
“This happened because
Hyderabad has a good image,
good law and order and crime
control with no communal
problems. In this situation
some people with evil minds
are trying to disturb the com-
munal situation.”
They are somehow trying
to create riots by spreading fake
news through Facebook, by
posting old morphed videos on
Twitter and through false news
and propaganda. IANS
Chandigarh: A day after meeting his
former Cabinet colleague Navjot
Sidhu over luncheon after over a year
of 'political differences',
Punjab Chief Minister
Amarinder Singh on Thursday said
his former colleague had boiled veg-
etables and he himself partook a
lunch.
Taking a dig at the Shiromani
Akali Dal(SAD) over its remark on
him hosting a banquet for Sidhu, the
Chief Minister said while his former
cabinet colleague had boiled veg-
etables, he himself partook a 'missi
roti with dahi' during the
lunch.
“Does that look like a banquet to
the Akalis?” he remarked.
Amarinder Singh hoped that he
and Sidhu would continue to have
cordial meetings like the one they
had yesterday, where they spoke a lot
about cricket, apart from a host of
other things.
Both were in a good mood dur-
ing the one-hour luncheon meeting,
to which he had invited Sidhu after
the latter expressed interest in meet-
ing him, said Amarinder Singh.
“I was satisfied and happy with
the meeting, and so was Sidhu,” he
added.
Quashing media speculation of
serious discussions between the two,
the Chief Minister quipped contrary
to what was being suggested, “We did
not make any plans for Punjab or
India or the world”.
“We just had some simple talks,
during which Sidhu shared a lot of
his cricketing experiences,” said
Amarinder Singh, adding unfortu-
nately the media was
making a mountain out of a mole-
hill.
The two leaders had not been
seeing eye to eye for quite some time
and the meeting was seen in politi-
cal circles as a bid to bury the
hatchet.
Sidhu had been lying low ever
since his resignation from the state
Cabinet in July last year. IANS
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The Constitution Day was
commemorated at
Motherhood University on
Thursday. The prominent per-
sonalities who had a major role
in formation of the Indian
constitution were remembered
in the presence of the univer-
sity vice chancellor Narendra
Sharma and director
(Administration) Deepak
Sharma.
Speaking about the con-
stitution, the vice chancellor
spoke about the persons who
had contributed towards its
drafting while adding that it
had been adopted by the con-
stituent assembly of the nation
on November 26, 1949. The
constitution of India came into
effect in a democratic manner
on January 26, 1950 and is
among the biggest written con-
stitutions in the world, added
Sharma.
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha
Assembly on Thursday wit-
nessed uproarious scenes as the
opposition BJP and Congress
demanded the resignation of
minister Arun Kumar Sahoo
for allegedly shielding the main
accused in the murder case of
a five-year-old girl in Nayagarh
district.
BJP members rushed to the
podium of the Speaker and dis-
played placards with the photo
of the minister with the
main accused in the murder
case.
Speaker Surjya Narayan
Patro adjourned the House
twice as the opposition mem-
bers created a ruckus.
The opposition demanded
the resignation of Sahoo after
the parents of the deceased
alleged that the main accused
in the case was not arrested due
to protection from the minis-
ter.
Outside the Assembly,
Congress MLA Tara Prasad
Bahinipati told reporters that
they demand Sahoo's resigna-
tion from the Cabinet and
High Court-monitored SIT
probe into the case.
Opposition chief whip and
BJP MLA Mohan Majhi alleged
that the Crime Branch probe
into the murder of the minor
girl is an eyewash.
“The state government had
earlier also ordered the Crime
Branch to probe several major
cases. But it is yet to submit a
single report. We will not allow
functioning of the House till
the resignation of minister
Arun Sahoo,” said Majhi.Senior
BJD MLA Debi Prasad Mishra
said the opposition is unnec-
essarily politicising the matter
while the state government
has already ordered a probe.
The Odisha government
has directed a Crime Branch
probe into the alleged abduc-
tion and killing of the five-year-
old girl.
The girl's father Ashok
Sahoo and mother Saudamini
on Tuesday attempted self-
immolation outside the Odisha
Assembly alleging that they
have been denied justice.
The couple accused the
minister of shielding the
accused Babuli Nayak. IANS
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Shimla: Even as snow eluded
Himachal Pradesh's capital
Shimla on Thursday, the pic-
turesque tourist town of Manali
experienced more snow, the
season's second this year. There
will be no more rain or snow
in the hills from Friday, officials
said.
“Manali, and the hills over-
looking it, experienced mild to
moderate snow,” an official at
the meteorological office here
told IANS.
According to the Met
office, Shimla recorded 15.9
mm rainfall. However, its near-
by tourists resorts like Kufri
had plentiful snow.
The Met said weather
would remain dry after
Thursday as western distur-
bances would recede from the
region.
The picturesque Kothi,
near Manali, recorded 60 cm
snowfall, the highest in the
state, while Kufri and Manali
had recorded a fair amount of
snow.
Shimla residents shivered
as icy winds brought down the
minimum temperature to 2.8
degrees Celsius. Shimla saw
intermittent rain throughout
the day.
Narkanda, some 65 km
from Shimla, experienced
snow, turning the hill station
even more picturesque.
Tourists from the plains
began to descend on Manali
and Kufri.
Kalpa, about 250 km from
the state capital, experienced 17
cm of snow. It recorded a low
of minus 0.6 degrees.
“High-altitude areas of
Lahaul and Spiti, Chamba,
Mandi, Kullu, Kinnaur and
Shimla districts have experi-
enced moderate to heavy
snow,” the official added.
Rains lashed towns in
lower hills in Himachal such as
Dharamsala, Palampur, Solan,
Nahan, Bilaspur, Una,
Hamirpur and Mandi, pushing
down the mercury.
Kasol in Kullu district
recorded 50 mm of rain, the
highest in the state.
Peaks overlooking popular
tourist sites like Shimla,
Dharamsala and Palampur also
got snow.
“We are hopeful of getting
tourists in good numbers in
Manali and nearby areas due to
this snow,” a Manali-based
hotelier told IANS on
phone. IANS
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ding party were killed and
two others critically injured in
a road accident in Dibrugarh's
Lepetkata early Thursday,
police said.
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Superintendent of Police Thube
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National Highway 37 when a
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er truck.
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speed, the five people died on
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quently. They were enroute to
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three farmers who were strand-
ed in the floodwaters were
rescued by Tirupati police in
Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor dis-
trict on Thursday.
“Tirupati police rescued
two persons along with
National Disaster Response
Force (NDRF). Efforts are
being made to rescue one
more,” said a police official.
The three farmers went to
check on their water motors in
the paddy fields when they got
stuck in the overflowing
Mallimadugu canal.
Mallimadugu is located in
Tirupati urban district and
falls under Redigunta mandal.
Chandragiri MLA
Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy
personally monitored their res-
cue operation.
Police used a rubber
dinghy and drones to save the
farmers who were hanging
onto a couple of trees as flood-
waters gush by beneath.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister
Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
reviewed the state of Nivar and
heavy rains in the state.
Officials informed him that
the cyclone crossed the coast,
which will gradually weaken.
Reddy was apprised about
the continuing rains in
Yerpedu, Srikalahasti and
Satyavedu in Chittoor
district.
Officials told him that on
average seven cm rainfall
occurred in Nellore district.
They said heavy inflows are
expected in Penna river.
Chief Minister office offi-
cials informed Reddy that
water will be released from
Somasila project as it is already
full and heavy inflows are
expected. Reddy directed offi-
cials to make all efforts in the
light of Nivar.
He told officials to take
care of a family which got
electrocuted in Nellore dis-
trict. Likewise, Reddy instruct-
ed on evaluating crop loss after
the rains stop. IANS
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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh
has registered 1,031 new Covid
positive cases, increasing the
state's tally to 8.65 lakh even as
1,081 more patients recovered
from the virus to outnumber
infections on Thursday.
Guntur accounted for the
highest number of infections,
172, in the past 24 hours, fol-
lowed by Krishna (162), West
Godavari (126), East Godavari
(117), Chittoor (102),
Visakhapatnam (84) and
Anantapuram (56).
Among other places,
Kadapa (55), Prakasam (43),
Nellore (41), Vizianagaram
(29), Srikakulam (23) and
Kurnool (21).
With the new additions,
East Godavari continues to
shoulder the highest number of
cases at 1.22 lakh.
Meanwhile, eight more
people succumbed to the virus
on Thursday, raising the total
number of Covid deaths in the
state to 6,970. Chittoor district
has witnessed the highest num-
ber of Covid deaths at 824.
On Thursday, 1,081 more
patients recovered from the
virus to increase the total num-
ber of recoveries to 8.46 lakh,
narrowing the gap between
total infections and
recoveries. IANS
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By announcing that he would retire only after making
Rahul Gandhi the PM of the country in the year 2024,
Harish Rawat has made it loud and clear that he has made
a resolution for one last hurrah to the chair of CM of
Uttarakhand. Considering the changing mood of electorate
of the Himalayan state in every assembly election since its
creation and lack of leaders of his stature in the Congress,
the wily leader knows it pretty well that grand old party
has no option but to keep him at forefront if it really wants
to make a serious bid for power in the assembly elections
of 2022. By penning down his retirement plan on his FB
wall that instantly became a topic of discussions in polit-
ical circles, the old fox has killed two birds with one stone.
Apart from making it apparent that he would remain polit-
ically active till his health would allow – for he has taken
an objective to make RaGa, the PM- he has made it clear
to his opponents both in Congress and BJP that he intends
to lead Congress’s campaign for power in the state.
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The shocking revelation of 57 trainees of elite Indian
Administrative Services (IAS) getting infected with
Covid-19 at the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri National
Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) located in pristine
hills of Mussoorie shows how callous the authorities of the
academy were in dealing with the threat of dreaded dis-
ease. The fact that the trainees were on a trekking expe-
dition to different locations in the hills of Garhwal further
underlies the sloppy approach which could put lives of locals
in the mountains at risk. A similar tale of carelessness was
witnessed in Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy
(IGNFA) when its authorities took budding officers of
Indian Forest Services (IFS) to Europe tour in the last week
of February this year when Covid-19 was at peak in these
countries and had not made its presence felt in Uttarakhand
and even in India. In fact the IFS trainees were the first
Covid-19 patients of the state. These two events suggest
that something is seriously wrong with the administrations
of these institutes tasked to produce administrators for the
country.
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Even as unfortunate death and injury to the construc-
tion workers in accidents like that occurred in the col-
lapse of an under construction bridge near Rishikesh on
All weather road continue to occur in different parts of the
state the skeletons are tumbling out from the cupboard of
the cash rich board meant for their welfare. After TSR yield-
ed the stick by removing Harak Singh Rawat from post of
chairman and his protégé from the position of secretary
stories of money swindling and blatant nepotism in the
board are emanating. It is learnt that an initial audit by the
AG revealed that large scale appointments were made by
the board without seeking necessary approval of the finance
department. Not surprisingly many of those appointed were
said to be serving at the homes of the minister, secretary
and others. It is also coming to fore that large numbers of
non eligible candidates were registered as construction
labourers even as the majority of the labourers don’t even
know about the existence of such a board which actually
is engaging in welfare of high and mighty.
?=BQ 347A03D=
Atotal of 355 persons tested
for Covid-19 while 11
patients of the diseases suc-
cumbed in the state on
Thursday. With 317 persons
recovering from the disease on
the same day, the total number
of active
Covid cases in the state is now
4,682.
The recovery rate in the
state is 91.05 per cent while the
sample positivity rate is 5.66 per
cent. The cumulative Covid pos-
itive cases detected in the state
till date are 72,997 of which a
total of 66,464 have been cured
so far. The total death toll from
Covid in the state currently
stands at 1,196.
According to the informa-
tion provided by the health
department, 13,470 samples
were sent for testing on
Thursday while the results of
16,982 samples are still awaited.
Of the positive cases detect-
ed in the state on Thursday, the
maximum- 128 were found in
Dehradun district followed by 51
cases in Pithoragarh. Among the
other districts, 14 positive cases
were found in Almora, six in
Bageshwar, 24 in Chamoli, six in
Champawat, 28 in Haridwar,
24 in Nainital, 39 in Pauri, three
in Rudraprayag, nine in Tehri,
five in Uttarkashi and 18 in
Udham SinghNagar district.
As far as the active cases are
concerned, Dehradun has the
maximum active cases at 1,438
followed by Haridwar district
with 543 cases. Among the other
districts, Almora has 155 active
cases, Bageshwar has 124,
Chamoli has 335, Champawat
has 106, Nainital has 443 with
434 active cases in Pauri, 354 in
Pithoragarh, 130 in
Rudraprayag, 231 in Tehri, 252
in Udham Singh Nagar and 137
in Uttarkashi.
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In what can be termed as a blessing in dis-
guise the extensive sanitisation activity to
contain the spread of novel Coronavirus
(Covid-19) ensured that not even a single case
of dengue was reported in the provisional
state capital of Dehradun this year.
Interestingly enough, the spraying of disin-
fectant such as Sodium hypo- chlorite failed
to contain the spread of Covid-19 in
Dehradun where 20583 cases of the disease
have been reported till Wednesday; it how-
ever helped in destroying the eggs and lar-
vae of dengue spreading mosquito and
which manifested in no case of the disease in
the district this year.
It is worth mentioning here that worried
at the prospect of a double whammy of Covid-
19 and dengue, the district administration of
Dehradun became vigilant on preventing
dengue ahead of the monsoon period this
year and was eventually successful in con-
taining at least the vector borne disease.
Dehradun along with districts of Haridwar
and Udham Singh Nagar is the hot bed of
dengue and every year a large number of peo-
ple become infected with the disease.
The disease also claims many lives every
year. The data of the state health department
suggest that 4991 cases of dengue were report-
ed in year 2019 while 314 and 366 cases were
reported in the year 2018 and 2017 respec-
tively. Similarly 1434 cases of dengue were
found in 2016 and 829 cases were reported
in the year 2015.
The experts inform that the egg of the
mosquito has a unique capability to form a
protective covering (cyst) around them with
the onset of winters and with return of
favourable condition during monsoon they
became active again.
These encysted eggs got destroyed by
spray of disinfectants this year. The fear of get-
ting infected with Covid-19 also kept sus-
pected dengue patients away from the labs for
tests of dengue. The head of department of
Zoology at DAV, PG College here, Shashi
Solanki opines that extensive use of sanitiz-
ers, constant washing of hands with soap done
by people to drive away Coronavirus also
helped in preventing dengue which is also a
viral disease.
The district vector borne diseases officer
of Dehradun, Subhash Joshi said that on the
orders of the district magistrate (DM), the
entire machinery became active on the
dengue front in the month of March itself and
responsibility of different departments and
municipal and other bodies was fixed at the
onset. He added that source reduction activ-
ity and awareness drives also helped in con-
taining dengue this year.
Dengue is a viral infection spread by the
mosquito Aedes Aezypti popularly known as
Tiger Mosquito. The symptoms of the dis-
ease are persistent high fever, rashes, headache
and pain in the joints. In acute cases the
platelet number decreases drastically which
may prove fatal for the patient.
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Chairing a video conference
with all the district magis-
trates, the chief secretary Om
Prakash directed them to
ensure the digitalisation of
their respective districts as
early as possible. From each
state, one district has to be 100
per cent digitalised by March
31, 2021.
In Uttarakhand, the
Almora district has to be cent
per cent digitalised before the
said date. In order to ensure
complete digitalisation of the
Almora district within the said
time frame, work will have to
be undertaken on mission
mode, he stressed.
The chief secretary said
that in order to make the dig-
italisation campaign fully suc-
cessful in all the departments,
all the government depart-
ments should undertake all
their transactions in the digi-
tal mode.
The work needed should
be expedited to make pay-
ment of power, housing, drink-
ing water and other bills
through the digital mode.
The QR code should be
sent on the electricity and
water bills so that the con-
sumers find it more convenient
to make the payment in the
digital mode. The chief secre-
tary further said that publicity
should be undertaken consis-
tently in order to encourage the
general public to opt for digi-
tal transactions. He also direct-
ed all the district magistrates to
undertake a campaign for get-
ting 100 per cent digitalised.
Om Prakash further direct-
ed that public awareness cam-
paign be conducted using var-
ied means including posters,
hoardings, wall paintings,
newspapers, television channels
and other media.
Stating that banks have a
vital role in the digitalisation
process, he said that banks
will also have to come forward
for this purpose. Banks should
undertaken special camps to
raise digital financial literacy by
facilitating opening of bank
accounts of general public and
providing them debit cards
along with information on
Bhim app, QR code and mobile
banking.
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The prices of various highly
consumed vegetables con-
tinue to skyrocket in Dehradun
market which. The prices were
expected to drop after Deepawali
but this has not happened yet. For
the last few months, the prices of
vegetables like onions, tomatoes
and potatoes are increasing con-
sistently and are being sold at the
prices ranging between Rs 50 per
kilogramme and Rs 80 per kilo-
gramme.
According to the president of
Dehradun Mandi Samiti, Rajesh
Sharma there are various factors
affecting the supply of some veg-
etables in the Mandi presently
due to which the prices of such
vegetables are high in Dehradun.
Factors like heavy rainfall in
some areas, transportation issues
and even the recent increase in
Covid-19 contagion in some
states is also causing a delay in the
supply of vegetables from the
other states which might go on
for weeks, said Sharma.
“It cannot be said exactly when the
prices of these vegetables will return to
normal but the situation will get better
when the Mandi will get regular and time-
ly supply here,” informed Sharma.
?=BQ 347A03D=
The Municipal Corporation
of Dehradun (MCD) is
going to hire an agency soon to
manage the sanitation facilities
from the door to door garbage
collection service to its com-
plete disposal in the new 31
wards of Dehradun. The cor-
poration has already given the
responsibility of managing the
sanitation facilities including
door to door service in the 69
wards out of 100 wards in the
city to Ramky Enviro Engineers
Limited (REEL). Now the
MCD is planning to hire a new
company for this work in the
remaining wards. According to
the chief municipal health offi-
cer Dr Kailash Joshi, most of
the procedure is completed
and the municipal corporation
will soon float a Request For
Proposal (RFP) after which a
company will be selected by the
MCD to manage the sanitation
facilities in these wards. He said
that this remaining procedure
will probably be completed in
a few weeks and soon after that,
the company will start the
work in the said wards.
Meanwhile, the corpora-
tion is also getting strict about
the families who do no dispose
garbage through the door to
door service in the city.
According to Joshi, the garbage
on roadside areas appears to
keep on increasing even after
door to door service and reg-
ular cleaning of the roads by
the corporation. One of its
reasons might be that rather
than disposing garbage in door
to door garbage collection
vehicles, locals are dumping
garbage on roads, said Joshi. He
stated that the corporation has
asked the management of
REEL to provide the list of
which houses actually dump
garbage in the door to door ser-
vice and which don't so that the
corporation can take action on
its basis. He said that it will take
at least one month to get the
full list of such families. As stat-
ed by the officials, the corpo-
ration will first issue a notice to
those who refrain from dump-
ing the domestic garbage in the
door to door service but will
impose penalty if they contin-
ue to do so after receiving the
notice too.
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In an inspection of a factory
in Selaqui by the chairperson
of the State Commission for
Protection of Child Rights
(SCPCR) Usha Negi, the com-
mission found out that sever-
al child labourers were brought
there by agents from several
different places of the nearby
states.
After a recent raid in a
tubelight and LED lights
assembling factory in Selaqui
area of Dehradun by some
N o n - G o v e r n m e n t a l
Organisations (NGOs) and the
authorities, Negi inspected the
factory on Thursday. The com-
mission suspected that there
were about 94 children who
appeared to be underage and
the management of the facto-
ry had also tried to hide most
of them in canteen and bath-
rooms too, said Negi.
According to her, the factory
management has even made
Aadhar cards of these children
with purportedly fake dates of
birth to show them as adults as
the birthdays of most of these
children fall on January 1
which is suspicious. The com-
mission also informed that
some workers also told the
members of the child welfare
committee (CWC) that they are
presently 19 years old and are
working in the factory for over
two years but their age is 23
years old in Aadhaar card.
According to the officials, most
of the child labourers in the fac-
tory were girls who belong to
the places like Bareilly,
Lakhimpur and Pilibhit in
neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.
While some children live with
their parents here, others live in
a rented room in groups of
three to four people as they get
very fewer wages, said Negi.
Four children talked to CWC
who were below 18 years as per
their documents too and the
age of the remaining 90 chil-
dren who are suspected to be
minors too will be verified
through the school documents
which will be asked to make
available by their respective dis-
trict authorities, informed Negi.
Moreover, there are about
700 women workers out of total
1,300 workers who work in the
factory but no proper facility
like clean toilets is made avail-
able for them, said the officials.
The officials added that there
were several other anomalies in
the factory too for which Negi
will soon call the management
of the factory in the commis-
sion.
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Levelling several serious alle-
gations against the deputy
transport commissioner
Sudhanshu Garg, the presi-
dent of Dehradun Mahanagar
City Bus Seva Mahasangh,
Vijay Vardhan Dandriyal
averred that the State
Government has not taken any
action against Garg despite
having sufficient pieces of evi-
dence.
When Garg was posted in
Rishikesh as assistant transport
officer, he approved a fitness
certificate of a bus that had an
accident on the way to
Badrinath due to technical
glitches in which several pas-
sengers had died, informed
Dandriyal. He said that Garg
had also approved a fitness cer-
tificate to a truck on February
12, 1998 which was actually in
the custody of the police at that
time. Furthermore, Dandriyal
said that the authorities seized
two trucks with the same num-
ber plates in the year 2017 but
instead of filing a case against
the truck operator, he was
fined with a mere sum of
penalty which happened under
the then regional transport
officer of Dehradun,
Sudhanshu Garg.
Dandriyal said that he
received this information under
the Right to Information (RTI)
Act and added that despite hav-
ing so many accusations and
evidence against Garg, he is still
in a high position in the trans-
port department.
“I had sent a complaint let-
ter with all the documents to
Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
and the Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways which
have directed the State
Government to take action in
this matter but our government
is doing nothing,” said
Dandriyal. He said that the
state government speaks about
zero tolerance for corruption
but refrains from taking actions
against the culprits in the gov-
ernment departments. He stat-
ed that he will continue to fight
in this matter until the author-
ities take appropriate action.
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Six States Maharashtra, Delhi,
West Bengal, Rajasthan and
Uttar Pradesh besides Kerala
accounted for more than half of
the 44,489 fresh cases of the
Covid-19 reported in the last 24
hours with the Southern State
topping the list taking the tally
to 92,66,705, while the death
toll climbed to 1,35,223 with
524 new fatalities.
The Union Health
Ministry said that 60.50 per
cent of the 524 latest fatalities
are concentrated in six States
and Union territories—Delhi,
Maharashtra, West Bengal,
Haryana, Punjab and Uttar
Pradesh.
The recoveries surged to
86.79 lakh while Covid-19
active caseload has risen to
4,52,344, an increase of 7,598
cases from Wednesday, even
though it remained below 5
lakh for the 16th consecutive
day.
The active cases comprise
4.88 per cent of the total case-
load, the data stated.
According to ICMR, over
13.59 crore samples have been
tested for Covid-19 till
November 25, with 10,90,238
samples being tested on
Wednesday.
The 524 new fatalities
include 99 from Delhi, 65
from Maharashtra, 51 from
West Bengal, 42 from
Haryana, 31 from Punjab, 29
from Uttar Pradesh and 26
from Kerala.
A total of 1,35,223 deaths
reported so far in the country
includes 46,748 from
Maharashtra followed by
11,714 from Karnataka, 11,655
from Tamil Nadu, 8,720 from
Delhi, 8,172 from West Bengal,
7,644 from Uttar Pradesh,
6,962 from Andhra Pradesh,
4,684 from Punjab and 3,906
from Gujarat.
The Ministry stressed that
more than 70 per cent of the
deaths occurred due to
comorbidities.
Kerala leads the fatalities
tally with 6,491 new Covid-19
cases registered in a span of 24
hours, while Maharashtra has
reported 6,159 new cases fol-
lowed by Delhi with 5,246 new
cases. Delhi with 99 deaths
reported the maximum new
fatalities. Maharashtra saw a
fatality count of 65 followed by
West Bengal with 51 deaths,
the Ministry said.
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Central paramilitary forces
stand at a little below five per-
cent with just over 2,300 cases
out of about 48,500 infected
personnel in their ranks. The
percentage of deaths in the
Forces till so far is just 0.37 per-
cent.
Out of a total of 48,434
infected personnel in the para-
military forces, as many as
45,916 persons (94.80 per cent)
have been cured and 181 (0.37
per cent) men succumbed to
the disease. About 4.82 per cent
of the total infected persons are
active at present.
The Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) reported 14,016
cases of Covid-19 infection.
Out of this, 13 623 personnel
who contracted the disease
have been cured, 73 personnel
succumbed to the disease and
only 320 are active cases
presently.
Likewise, BSF reported
13,747 cases of which 13,153
have recuperated and 43
patients died due to Covid-19
disease. As many as 551
patients continue to be active
in the BSF ranks.
The Central Industrial
Security Force (CISF) report-
ed a total of 9,963 cases of
infection. The number patients
cured is 8,933 and the casual-
ties stand at 39 in the CISF
which has the maximum active
cases with a tally of 996.
The Sashastra Seema Bal
(SSB) has reported 5,235 cases
including 4,987 cured patients,
13 casualties and 235 active
cases.
The Indo-Tibetan Border
Police (ITBP) has reported
4,521 cases of which 4,303:
patients have been cured, 12
personnel died and there are
currently 206 active cases.
The National Disaster
Response Force (NDRF)
reported 628 cases of infection
of which 608 patients have
been cured, one personnel died
and only 19 men are active.
The National Security
Guards (NSG) reported 324
cases of infection including
309 cured patients, zero casu-
alty and just 15 active cases
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The CBI has registered a case
against Deputy
Commissioner of Customs CS
Pavan and others and con-
ducted searches on Wednesday
at eight places including
Mumbai, Pune and Delhi at the
premises of public servants
and private persons including
Importer Custom Broker.
The searches yielded C9
lakh (approximately) and
incriminating documents, offi-
cials said.
A case was registered
against Deputy Commissioner
of Customs and others includ-
ing Appraiser Group, Appraiser
Shed, Examiner Shed and pri-
vate persons, the CBI said in a
statement.
“It was alleged that said
Customs officials while post-
ed at Air Cargo Complex,
Sahar, Mumbai during 2016-
17 entered into a conspiracy
with others including propri-
etors of private companies
and fraudulently cleared the
consignments which were
declared ‘Metal Toy Gun’
under CTH 95030030 instead
of CTH 93039000 and also,
there was undervaluation of
the goods in violation of the
Import Policy as mandated in
the Compulsory Customs
Requirements (CCRs), there-
by causing the pecuniary
advantage to the importer and
loss to the Government of
India,” the agency said, adding
investigation is continuing.
The accused persons
include CS Pavan, Deputy
Commissioner, KSN Reddy,
Appraiser Group, Gangadhar
Goud, Appraiser Shed,
Santosh Anaji Shelar,
Appraiser Shed, Lalit Singha,
Examiner Shed, Amit Kumar,
Examiner Shed,
Sagar K Pitalwar
(Importer), Proprietor of Balaji
Automotives Solutions, Vinay
Singh, proprietor of Ocean
Waves (Custom Broker) and
unknown persons.
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Union Minister for Road
Transport, Highways Nitin
Gadkari on Thursday called
upon the Uttar Pradesh
Government to exempt toll
plaza agreements from stamp
duty in the State. He also asked
for expediting land acquisition
for developing National
Highways, as is being done in
some of the States.
The Minister also request-
ed the State Government to
consider halving the Utility
Shifting Supervision Charge
from 5 percent to 2.5 percent
on the lines being done by
other States. He called for
quick disbursal of land acqui-
sition compensation for expe-
diting the NH projects in the
State.
The Union Minister was
speaking after virtually inau-
gurating and laying the foun-
dation stones of 16 National
Highway projects with a total
length of over 500 kms worth
Rs 7477 crore in Uttar Pradesh
today. The event was presided
by the Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath, in the presence of
Union MoS Gen (Retd) Dr V
K Singh, Deputy Chief Minister
of UP Keshav Prasad Maurya,
Ministers from the State,
Members of Parliament, MLAs
and senior officers from the
Centre and the State.
Gadkari said, about 3700
km NH length worth Rs
42,000 crore has been added in
Uttar Pradesh in the last six
years. “Today, there are over
11,389 kms of NHs in the
State, and roads worth Rs 1.3
lakh crore are being con-
structed in UP,” the Minister
said.
He informed that as much
as Rs 26,000 crore have been
disbursed towards land acqui-
sition cost in the State during
last three years. He said,
upgradation and development
of NHs will improve connec-
tivity to all the districts and
major cities of the State.
Gadkari said, CRF works
worth Rs 15,439 have been
sanctioned since 2014 in the
State. He said, Rs 4628 crore
have been released till last year
under the scheme, while
another over Rs 287 crore was
sanctioned in the current year
and has today approved releas-
ing Rs 280 crore more. The
Minister assured that the
amount will be released soon
after receiving proposals from
the State.
The Minister said, NH
works of 2,900 km worth Rs
65,000 crore will be complet-
ed in the current year in UP.
Another 1100 km length of Rs
14,000 crore are targeted to be
awarded this year. Further,
DPRs are under preparation
for 3500 km length at a cost of
about Rs 50,000 crore, he
said.The Minister said, NH
works amounting to Rs two
lakh crore are being under-
taken in UP.
Gadkari informed that
construction of 133 km 4-lane
Greenfield project worth Rs
3652 crore between Ghazipur-
Ballia-Mazhighat is under
consideration. DPR is also
being prepared for the 98 km
4-lane Prayagraj Ring road
costing Rs 7,000 crore. It will
be made in 3 phases, under the
first phase, a 27 km Greenfield
bypass from Dandupur to
Sansor will be constructed at
a cost of Rs 2,500 crore. This
will include a 2 5 km bridge
over river Ganga. Other pro-
jects under consideration
include Sitarganj-Barelli 74
km 4-lane, Mathura-Hathras-
Badayun-Barelli 228 km 4-
lane, Agra-Aligarh 81 km 4-
lane, Agra-Jalesar 87 km 2-
lane with paved shoulders,
Sha hj a h anpu r- Hard oi -
Lucknow 270 km 2-4 lane,
Raibareli-Prayagraj 105 km
4-lane widening, and
Lucknow-Kanpur-Karvi-
Chhatarpur-Sagar 335 km for
UP-MP connectivity.
Union Minister of State for
RTH Gen (Retd) Dr V K
Singh said, the projects, on
completion, will provide faster
and hassle-free inter-state and
inter-district connectivity, and
will be a major stride towards
strengthening tourism sector
of the State. The new projects
will provide better connectiv-
ity, fast and safe movement of
traffic to various tourist places,
historical places and religious
places in the entire State. They
are likely to generate large
number of employment and
self-employment opportuni-
ties to the unskilled, semi-
skilled and skilled manpower
of the region. The projects will
reduce travel time and main-
tenance cost of the vehicles
and saving of fuel.
Implementation of the project
would result in enhanced
socio-economic conditions of
the locality. These will improve
the transport of agricultural
goods and access to greater
markets, thereby reducing the
cost of goods and services.
These will also create easy and
speedy access to health care
and emergency services. In a
nutshell, after completion of
the above projects, there will
be a quantum jump in the
development of tourism, eco-
nomic and international con-
nectivity of this region. Finally,
it will give impetus to the GDP
of the State.
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath also addressed the
event. He said the people of
UP are indebted to the Centre
for having prioritized it for
development. He said the new
roads will be a boon for the
people as these will provide
all-weather connectivity in
the State.
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Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on Thursday said
production-linked incentives
similar to those for electronic
manufacturing will be offered
for high-efficiency solar mod-
ules to boost the generation of
electricity from renewable
sources which has the poten-
tial to generate an annual
business of USD 20 billion.
Speaking at the RE-Invest
2020 conference, he invited
global investors to join India’s
renewable energy journey.
“There are huge renewable
energy deployment plans for
the next decade,” he said,
adding that these are likely to
generate business prospects
of the order of around USD 20
billion per year.
“Today, India’s renewable
power capacity is the fourth
largest in the world. It is grow-
ing at the fastest speed among
all major countries,” he said.
Renewable energy capac-
ity will rise to 220 GW by 2022
from the current 136 Giga
Watts (GW), he added.
Renewable energy capac-
ity at present is about 36 per
cent of India’s total electricity
generating capacity.
Modi said that after the
success of Production Linked
Incentives (PLI) in electronics
manufacturing, “we have
decided to give similar incen-
tives to high-efficiency solar
modules”.
He, however, did not elab-
orate.
Stating that ensuring ‘ease
of doing business’ was the
utmost priority, he said a ded-
icated project development
cell has been established to
facilitate investors.
“In the last six years, we
increased our installed renew-
able energy capacity by two
and half times,” he said. “Our
annual renewable energy
capacity addition has been
exceeding that of coal-based
thermal power since 2017.”
Even when it was not
affordable, investments were
made in renewable energy.
Now, investments and scale
are bringing costs down, he
said.
Noting that in the last six
years, India has been travel-
ling on an unparalleled jour-
ney, Modi said, “we are
expanding our generation
capacity and network to
ensure every citizen of India
has access to electricity to
unlock his full potential”.
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After successful implemen-
tation of the National
Digital Health Mission in a
pilot mode in six Union
Territories, the Government is
now all set to roll out the dig-
ital initiative envisaging
HealthID, DigiDoctor, Health
Facility Registry, eHospital,
Patient and eHealth Records
across the country.
This was stated by Union
Health Minister Dr Harsh
Vardhan after he took stock of
the implementation of the flag-
ship health protection mis-
sion, Ayushman Bharat -
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya
Yojana(AB PM-JAY) and
National Digital Health
Mission (NDHM).
“The NDHM will digital-
ize healthcare by creating a
country-wide digital health
ecosystem that will enable
patients to store, access and
consent to share their health
records with doctors and health
facilities of their choice,” said
the Minister. The six union ter-
ritories where the mission was
rolled out through a pilot
launch are Chandigarh,
Ladakh, Dadra and Nagar
Haveli and Daman and Diu,
Puducherry, Andaman and
Nicobar Islands and
Lakshadweep.
Dr Harsh Vardhan said
that one of the most remark-
able aspects of NDHM is that
it takes into account the lived
realities of Indians spread
across the digital divide. “The
NDHM will empower millions
of citizens without smart-
phones or those in remote
tribal areas facing connectivi-
ty issues to still avail healthcare
through its offline modules.”
The ambitious NDHM was
unveiled by PrimeMinister
Narendra Modi on August 15
under which every Indian will
get a health ID that will ease
access to medical services. The
National Health Authority
(NHA), the apex agency
responsible for the implemen-
tation of Ayushman Bharat
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya
Yojana (ABPMJAY), has been
given the mandate by the gov-
ernment to design, build, roll-
out and implement the NDHM
in the country.
The health ID will contain
information about medical
data, prescriptions and diag-
nostic reports and summaries
of previous discharge from
hospitals for ailments. The
mission is expected to bring
efficiency and transparency in
healthcare services in the coun-
try.
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WithCovid-19castingshad-
ow over success achieved
last two years under the
Tuberculosis (TB) elimination
programme when higher case
findings were registered, the
Union Ministry is now banking
on its partners to reach its goal
of ending the deadly disease by
2025.
As per the Government
data, there is an 18 per cent and
12percentincreaseincasefind-
ingunderNationalTuberculosis
Elimination Program in 2018
and 2019 respectively. In private
sector, there is 77 per cent
increaseinthenotificationfrom
3.8 lakhs in 2017 to 6.8 lakh in
2019. However, Covid-19 is
throwing spanner in the gov-
ernment’s efforts to contain the
TB.
“At a time, when Covid is
taking prioritised attention, we
should not lose the sight of the
goal to eliminate TB by 2025.
Advocacyandengagementarea
way to move forward, Dr Harsh
Vardhan,UnionHealthMinister
said as he called for a Jan
Andolan- a People’s Movement
to combat the deadly disease.
“ThefightagainstTBneeds
to be made into a Jan Andolan,
a people’s movement. An effec-
tive communication strategy is
needed which would focus on
reachingthemaximumpopula-
tion; complement with preven-
tive, diagnostic and curative
aspects of TB management;
work towards demand genera-
tion; ensuring regular high vis-
ibilitymass-mediacoverage;and
also focus on community own-
ership and mobilization,”
Minister enlisted various mea-
sures at a meeting with various
developmentalpartnersworking
in the field of TB care and man-
agement in India.
The Union Health Minister
urged for a joint collaborative
platform where all the partners
could join hands and forces
together in elimination of
Tuberculosis by 2025 from the
country.
He also highlighted the
importance of strong political
andadministrativecommitment
fromallStates/UTGovernments.
“Partners can take a lead in gal-
vanizing political commitment
from the various political lead-
ers locally”, he pointed out. The
Minister also asserted the need
to address stigma in a huge way
“as it is one of the biggest bar-
riers and hinders people from
comingforwardforreportingthe
diseases and availing of the
treatment.” Rajesh Bhushan,
Secretary,(Health)notedthatthe
aim is to leverage the capacity of
UNagencies,internationalbod-
ies, NGOs and all other part-
nership to work toward eradi-
cating the disease.
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The Supreme Court
Thursday dismissed a plea
by Skoda Auto Volkswagen
India challenging an FIR reg-
istered in Uttar Pradesh by a
customer over the alleged use
of “cheat device” in its diesel car
by the company to manipulate
emission norms.
A bench of Chief Justice S
A Bobde and Justices A S
Bopanna and V
Ramasubramanian pro-
nounced the verdict and dis-
missed the plea by the
German car maker.
On November 4, the top
court had reserved the verdict
on the plea saying as to why
the investigation should not
go on in the case.
A ‘cheat’ or ‘defeat device’
is a software installed in auto
engines to manipulate pollu-
tion emission tests.
Volkswagen was accused of
the malpractice globally a few
years ago.
During the hearing the
automobile maker argued that
in December, 2015 the com-
plaint was made in the
National Green Tribunal
(NGT) and in March, 2019 a
penalty was imposed on it
which was stayed by the apex
court.
An FIR was also
lodged in UP and the compa-
ny moved the high court seek-
ing its quashing, it said.
The apex court passed
the order on the appeal filed
by Skoda against the
Allahabad High Court order
refusing to quash the FIR and
dismissing its plea.
The high court had said
that whether a cheat device
was installed in the vehicles is
a matter of investigation and
it cannot be interfered with by
the court on an erroneous
interpretation of the interim
order of the top court.
The top court had earlier
restrained the Centre from
taking any “coercive” step
against the company for non-
submission of Rs 500 crore
fine imposed by the NGT for
damaging environment
through use of “cheat device”
in its diesel cars in India.
The green panel had
directed the car maker to
deposit the amount within
two months with Central
Pollution Control Board.
The tribunal had
enhanced the compensation
amount of Rs 171.34 crore,
which was recommended by a
NGT-appointed committee,
to Rs 500 crore as a means of
“creating deterrence”.
The auto maker, however, had
said that it did not violate the
BS-IV norms and that the test
results were based on “on
road testings” for which there
were no prescribed standards.
Volkswagen India had in
December 2015 announced
the recall of 3,23,700 lakh
vehicles in India to fix the
emission software after ARAI
conducted tests on some
models and found that their
on-road emissions were 1.1
times to 2.6 times higher
than the applicable BS-IV
norms.
The automobile giant had
admitted to the use of ‘defeat
device’ in 11 million diesel
engine cars sold in the US,
Europe and other global mar-
kets to manipulate emission
test results.
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Amid farmers’ march to
Delhi over new farm laws,
Union agriculture minister
Narendra Singh Tomar on
Thursday appealed to farmers
to stop the protest and invited
them for talks on December 3
to resolve differences.
Appealing the farmers to not
agitate, the Union agriculture
minister assured that the talk
will have a positive outcome.
“I want to appeal to our
farmer brothers to not agitate.
We are ready to talk about
issues and resolve differences.
I am sure that our dialogue will
have a positive result,” Tomar
said. “The new farm laws were
the need of the hour. In the
coming time, it’s going to bring
revolutionary changes. We have
spoken at the secretary level in
Punjab to dispel wrong notions
of our farmer brothers there.
We will talk on December 3,”
he added. “I’m sure that our
dialogue will have a positive
result,” Tomar added.
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hangedhimselfonFacebooklive
in Chawdhana village of Khair
area, Aligarh. Seeing his video,
some people informed his elder
brother living in another house.
On reaching there, the family
found him dead. He took alco-
hol before suicide. Police
reached the spot and sent the
body for postmortem. The wife
ofthedeceasedhasgivenacom-
plaintofmurderagainsthisfam-
ily.
Sachin Saraswat son of
Keshav Dev, a resident of village
Chowdhana, used to work as a
private employee in the elec-
tricity department at Lal Diggi
in Aligarh. He returned from
Aligarh on Tuesday evening as
usual to the village. He took
alcoholfirst,closedhisroomand
came live on Facebook and
hanged himself. This live suici-
dal video of about 18-minute
was watched by many of his
Facebook friends. PNS
Aligarh: For the voting in
MLC elections, the district
administration has issued an
important guideline for the
voters. For the voting to be held
on December 1, the district
administration said that 10
types of identification docu-
ments will be valid for voting,
on showing any of which, the
voter will be allowed to vote.
Deputy District Election
Officer Vidhan Jaiswal told
that ASHAs will be deployed at
every center, which will get the
voters sanitized. PNS
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Launching a big election-dri-
ven project Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee on
Thursday announced a State
Government-sponsored health-
insurance scheme for all.
Releasing a digital health
card for the citizens the Chief
Minister said the scheme would
commence from December 1
and could be availed by all the
citizens. “Be it an old person or
a child, men or women, rich or
poor, villager or townsman,
Hindu or Muslim, Dalits and
tribal or upper caste, everyone
will be covered by this scheme,”
Banerjee said urging the people
togettheirnamesenlistedinthe
project christened Swasthya
Saathi. “Earlier, we had decided
to enroll at least 7.5 crore peo-
ple under 'Swathya Sathi'. I am
announcing today that every
family in the State will get it.”
Apparentlyhittingtwobirds
in a shot Banerjee also said that
the scheme would be in the
nameoftheeldestwomanofthe
family so that it would help the
women’s empowerment
cause.
Kolkata:ThebandhcalledbytheLeftandCongresstradeunions
against a number of policies of the Central Government found
mixed response in Bengal.Even as the State Government issued
directives making attendance compulsory a day before most of
the Government offices witnessed near full attendance.
In other sectors like jute mills and other industrial belts of
Durgapur-Asansol there was partial cease work, sources said.
Half-empty Government buses were seen plying on the streets
while private buses were far less in number in Kolkata.
ThoughtherewasrushinHowrahandSealdahstationslocal
train services got disrupted after the bandh supporters block-
aded the tracks at various places in Hooghly, Burdwan,
Jadavpur and other places.
Bandh found good response in Siliguri, Alipurduar and
Coochbehar where buses were torched. Tea gardens however
functioned near normally sources said adding all the banks and
financial institutions were shut down hitting business and lead-
ing to a corresponding shut down in the business districts of
burrabazar and parts of Howrah.
CPI(M) politburo member Biman Bose later claimed that
the bandh was successful “considering the fact that both the
Trinamool Government and the BJP united against us to foil it
by using the government machinery and the police. This only
proves that they are involved in ashadow fight.”
ChiefMinisterMamataBanerjeehoweversaidthatherparty
never supported bandh as a policy. PNS
Kolkata: The ongoing tussle between Trinamool
Congress and Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar
reached new heights with senior TMC MP Kalyan
Banerjee on Thursday launching a scathing attack on
the latter for being in touch with the criminals.
Banerjee also a senior advocate accused Dhankhar
of saving the corrupt and criminals and asked the police
administration to file a criminal complaint against
him.
“Here is a Governor who is saving the corrupt and
is in regular touch with the criminals … he should be
proceeded against by the police … I request the police
administration to file a complaint under the IPC against
this man,” Banerjee said alleging how he was trying to
protect Govind Agarwal and Sudipta Roychowdhury
both of who were accused and were being investigat-
ed by central agencies.
One of them had his name linked to cow smug-
gling and human trafficking “whereas the Governor is
trying to shield them and is attacking the State police
which is doing all the good works … such a person
should be booked and punished under Section 186,”
he said. PNS
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,3 DVNV 70 03Jammu: The popular support base
of the Peoples Democratic Party,
carefully nurtured by the party
patron Mufti Mohd Sayeed here in
Jammu suffered another dent as
three more leaders quit the party,
two days ahead of the maiden elec-
tions of the district development
council, on Thursday.
In a joint letter issued to media
houses, former state general secre-
tary PDP Dhaman Bhasin, state sec-
retary Fallail Singh and ex-district
President Doda, Pritam Kotwal
alleged that the PDP has become the
“B team” of the National Conference
(NC).
Both Bhasin and Singh were
counted among the close aides of
Mufti Mohd Sayeed and were also
the founding members of the PDP
from Jammu.
Feeling suffocated in the party
for a long time these leaders even
claimed the PDP has abandoned
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed’s vision
and that “unscrupulous, communal
elements with mysterious character”
have taken over.
“Putting our political career at
stake, we joined PDP -- from the
very first day of its formation -- with
an aim to provide a secular alterna-
tive to corrupt and dynast NC as late
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed had a
vision to frustrate evil designs of
communal and parochial elements
but the party leadership has, unfor-
tunately, abandoned Mufti Sahib’s
agenda to become B team of NC,”
the letter, signed the three, read.
The letter submitted to the PDP
Chief Mehbooba Mufti further
noted “The party leadership has
recently given some highly provoca-
tive and controversial statements
against the basic principles of the
founder of the party. PNS
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Gandhinagar: Amid thousands of well wishers, the
Congress veteran and party's ace troubleshooter
Ahmed Patel's mortal remains were laid to rest in
his native village in Gujarat's Bharuch district, fol-
lowing the Covid-19 guidelines.
Many top national leaders of the party, includ-
ing Rahul Gandhi, were present during the funer-
al to pay their last respects.
The last rites were carried out at the Sunni
Vohra Muslim Jamaat graveyard in the Piraman vil-
lage, Patel's ancestral village. As per his wish, his
dead body was buried beside his parents' graves and
due Covid-19 guidelines and protocols were fol-
lowed during the funeral.
Ahmed Patel passed away on Wednesday
morning due to post-Covid issues, according to his
son Faisal. He was admitted in the Medanta hos-
pital in Gurugram from where his body was
flown to Vadodara and from there to Ankleshwar
hospital, where it was kept till Thursday
morning. After a brief 10-minute stop at his resi-
dence, his mortal remains were brought to the
graveyard. IANS
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Assam bade an emotional send-off to its
longest serving Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi
on Thursday, as his funeral were marked by the
presenceofthousandsofmenandwomenandper-
formed with full state honours at the Nabagraha
cremation ground in Guwahati.
Amidst the chanting of solemn hymns and
gun salute and band played by the Assam Police,
the mortal remains of Gogoi were consigned to
flames by his son Gaurav Gogoi, a Lok Sabha
member,inpresenceofthousandsofpeople,many
of them were emotionally charged.
Wearing the traditional “Chelleng Sador” (a
shawl) and 'dhoti' (men's garment) along with a
face mask Gaurav lit the pyre after performing the
rituals.
The veteran Congress leader's wife septuage-
narian Dolly, daughter Chandrima, daughter-in-
law Elizabeth and other family members placed
sandalwood pieces on the pyre before it was lit by
Gaurav.
Amaravati: In the past 24
hours till Thursday morning,
164 places in Andhra Pradesh
witnessed a rainfall of more
than 60 mm as the very severe
cyclonic storm Nivar lashed the
whole state.
According to the
Meteorological department,
five places in Nellore district
registered the highest rainfall -
- APFT Colony (302.7 mm),
Boggulamitta Ward (272.7
mm), MPP School (264 mm),
Summer storage tank (242.7
mm) and Thatipatri (239.5
mm).
Chittoor district Collector
Narayan Bharat Gupta said an
average of 8.6 cm rainfall lashed
a few places in the district on
Wednesday.
“Varadaiyapalem, Yerpedu,
Srikalahasti, Satyavedu,
Nagulapuram, Vijayapuram
and Narayanavanam mandals
witnessed rainfall more than 12
cm,” said Gupta.
Due to heavy inflow, he
said the gates of the major
reservoirs were being opened to
release water. Advising caution
to the public, the Collector said
people should not attempt to
cross the roads even if the water
flow is less.
“We request you to stay at
home safely for one or two
days, until the situation gets
better,” said Gupta. He said the
district administration shut
roads in K.V. Puram and
Pichapuram because of the
heavy outflow of rain water.
Such is the severity of
Nivar that most parts of West
Godavari district have been
witnessing rainfall since
Wednesday night.
It has been continuously
raining from around 9 p.m. on
Wednesday night in
Bhimavaram and several vil-
lages in its vicinity such as
Seesali, Bondada, Kalla,
Kallakuru, Doddanapudi,
Chinnapulleru and
others.
It did not rain in these
places during the day time on
Tuesday, but it was windy and
mildly sunny only for a short
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AThane Special Court on
Thursday granted bail to
54 tribals arrested in connec-
tion with the lynching of two
Sadhus and their driver by an
irate mob near Kasa town in
Maharashtra’s Palghar district
in April this year.
Special district court judge
P P Jadhav released 54 accused
on bail against a surety bond of
Rs 15,000 each.
Those granted bail includ-
ed eight persons who were
arrested immediately after the
shocking crime that took place
on April 16 this year. The
remaining 46 were those who
were arrested subsequently by
the State CID during the course
of the investigations in the
case.
Advocates Amrut Adhikari
and Atul Patil, who appeared
before the court for the
accused, argued that their
clients had no role to play in the
incident and had been arrest-
ed merely on grounds of sus-
picion.
While Special public pros-
ecutor Satish Maneshinde
appeared for the prosecution,
Advocate PN Ojha appeared
for the family of the deceased
sadhus.
The special court will hear
the bail applications of the
other accused on December 5.
Earlier this month, the
court had granted bail to four
accused, including a man and
his two sons, in the case.
Of the 366 accused in the
case, 28 adults and 9 juveniles
were released on a default bail
as the CID charge sheet did not
specify their exact involve-
ment in the crime owing to lack
of evidence.
On July 16, this year, the
state CID filed a comprehensive
charge-sheets against the
accused before a Dahanu court
in connection with the April
16, 2020 Palghar lynching
incident.
In its charge sheet – run-
ning into 4955 pages -- filed
before the court of Judicial
Magistrate First Class (JMFC)
at Dahanu in Palghar district,
the CID sleuths named 126
accused in connection with
the incident that took place on
the night of April 16.
The investigation team, led
by Deputy Superintendent of
Police (CID) Vijay Pawar, filed
the charge-sheet after examin-
ing 808 suspects and 118 wit-
nesses to collect strong evi-
dence against the accused.
It may be recalled that on
the night of April 16, three per-
sons were lynched by a 200-
strong mob of villagers near
Kasa town in Maharashtra’s
Palghar district on suspicion
that they were thieves.
The villagers first hurled
stones at the van, prompting
the driver to stop the vehicle.
Later, they pulled three persons
out of the vehicle and beat
them to death in
Gadhchinchale village on
Dabhadi-Khanwel road, with
sticks and rods.
The deceased ---identified
as Chikne Maharaj
Kalpavrukshagiri (70),
Sushilgiri Maharaj (35) and dri-
ver Nilesh Telgade (30) were
travelling to Surat. Of them one
was the diver, while two are res-
idents of Kandivli in north
Mumbai.
The place where the inci-
dent took place is approxi-
mately 120 km from
Mumbai.
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Two months after he was
arrested in the Sushant
Singh death-related drug case,
a Special court here on
Thursday granted a condition-
al bail to former executive of
Karan Johar’s Dharma
Productions Kshitij Ravi Prasad
against a cash bond of Rs
50,000.
Special NDPS Court Judge
G. B. Gurao ordered the release
of Kshitij on furnishing a pro-
visional cash bail of Rs.50,000
plus one or two sureties, to be
furnished within a month.
However, Advocate Satish
Maneshinde, who represented
Kshitij, said that his client
would not walk out of the jail,
as he is named in another
recent NDPS case which will
come up for hearing on
December 3.
As per the conditions
imposed in his bail order,
Kishitij will have to report to the
Narcotics Control Bureau
(NCB) office every Monday for
an hour for the next six months,
deposit his passport, not trav-
el abroad without prior per-
mission of the court, share his
itinerary for any domestic trav-
el, attend all court proceedings,
refrain from tampering with
any evidence or witnesses, etc.
Kshitij, it may be recalled,
arrested on September 26, the
NCB conducted raids at his
Versova residence where mar-
ijuana was seized
Kshitij was named by an
alleged peddler Ankush Arneja
and actress Rakul Preet Singh
in their statements to the NCB.
Both have reportedly told inves-
tigators that Kshitij was sup-
plying drugs to the people in
Bollywood.
On his part, filmmaker
Karan Johar swiftly distanced
himself from both Kishitj and
Anupam Chopra by issuing a
statement to that effect.
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A
Supreme Court Bench
recently reprimanded the
Government on its
COVID-19 containment
measures and asked the Centre as
well as the worst-affected States to
filestatusreports.What’sstillgoing
wrong when the national recovery
rate is at an all-time high of 93 per
cent plus and the number of new
infections has dipped to below
40,000 per day, down from 80,000
duringSeptember?However,when
the Supreme Court notes that the
scenarioisgrim,itimpliesthatwin-
ter could undermine the gains
made so far, with the COVID-19
awareness campaign in the unlock
period being one of the weakest
links in the chain.
On October 7, Information
andBroadcastingMinisterPrakash
Javadekar announced that posters,
bannersandstickersaboutCOVID
prevention would come up at pub-
lic places, metros, auto rickshaws
andpublictransportsoon.Though
this writer’s world has shrunk dur-
ingthelasteightmonths,beingcon-
finedmostlytohome,stillhehasnot
noticed any such outdoor publicity
material being put up in his mod-
estSouthDelhilocality.Theaware-
nesscampaign,sincethebeginning
of the outbreak, is confined mostly
to electronic media. Print media
advertisinglostitsreachaftermany
readers unsubscribed newspapers,
fearing they might be Corona-
infected. The other medium is
mobile phone, where the COVID
caller tune is frankly about force-
feeding. Existing campaigns were
perhapshelpfuluntilMay31,when
the total lockdown was in force. As
the Unlock 1 phase began on June
1, new interactive situations began
tomultiply.Therateofinfectionsgot
accelerated on expected lines. The
awareness campaign, however,
remained dated by refusing to take
newsituationsintoconsideration.It,
therefore, came to resemble a ser-
mon and sounded preachy.
Amitabh Bachchan is the face
oftheGovernment’sCOVIDaware-
ness campaign like he had been for
SwachhBharatAbhiyan.Ithappens
only in India that a Padma
Vibhushan awardee can appear in
an ad campaign for gold loans and
pulse polio drops with equal zeal.
Ideally, he should have been
removedfromthecampaignafterhe
himself contracted COVID in July.
Alternatively, he should have been
re-launched with a new ad script,
depictinghimasaCOVIDsurvivor.
However, that did not happen.
Another TV spot featuring
AkshayKumarforDoordarshan
(on precautions in the Unlock
era) is more appalling. It shows
the actor encouraging a senior
citizen to go to work by wearing
a mask. This clearly militates
againsttheGovernment’sadviso-
ryforseniorcitizenstoavoidven-
turingoutdoors.Akshayfurther
states that the Government had
made sufficient arrangements
for people even if they had con-
tractedCOVID.Thisaffirmation
is completely out of sync with
reality in most States. The cam-
paign ambassador perhaps
implied only the Modi
Government.However,thesub-
ject of public health and sanita-
tion, hospitals and dispensaries
iscoveredbytheStateListunder
the Seventh Schedule (Article
246).Itisalsocoveredunderthe
Panchayat List under Article
243G.Broadcasting,beingpartof
communications,isplacedonthe
Union List under Seventh
Schedule. Thus Doordarshan
failedabjectlytodevelopaState-
specificCOVIDawarenesscam-
paign reflecting local realities.
While the publicity drive seems
toberunbyMandiHouseman-
darins, by employing Mumbai
denizenslikeAmitabhBachchan,
Akshay Kumar and Sachin
Tendulkar, they forgot that the
brunt of healthcare is left to the
States.
AsUnlockphasesprogressed
fromJune1,itwasexpectedthat
the awareness campaign would
becomemorelocalised.Anend-
to-end information campaign
couldhavehelpedreducethecase
load. While many COVID sur-
vivors volunteered to donate
plasma to save the lives of other
patients, they could have helped
more by sharing the lessons
learnt.Itwouldhavehelpedifwe
couldhaveproducedaninforma-
tion bank, albeit maintaining
strict confidentiality, about how
possiblythosepatientscontract-
ed COVID. For instance, what
percentage of newly-infected
people observed protocols or
werenegligentaboutthem. How
many think they got it by using
publictransport,venturingoutin
amarketplaceoreatingoutinthe
company of strangers at restau-
rants and so on.
The Government was
admittedly in a cleft stick situa-
tion. It had to decide between
containingrisingcasesandreviv-
ing the economy. Emphasising
one could hurt the prospect of
the other. The cold season
knocked earlier than usual this
yearandtheNCTofDelhiisone
of the worst-affected regions
with pollution picking up. The
fall-winter is also the season for
festivities and weddings when
thebusinesspicksuppost-mon-
soon. In order to replenish their
depleted revenue coffers, the
Centre as well as the Delhi
Government chose to look the
otherwayonacontainmentdrill
such conditions warranted. The
result was the quadrupling of
infections in Delhi. When
Governments wrestle against
their conscience, they usually
win. An example of conflict
betweencommercialandpublic
health interests could be seen in
theDelhiGovernment’sdecision
to reverse its order within 24
hours on closure of Punjabi
Basti market and Janata market
in the Nangloi area for flouting
pandemic norms. With all large
markets in Delhi open for busi-
ness, the disease protocol is
hardlybeingfollowedanywhere.
By November 24, India had
conducted a total of 13.3 crore
(13,36,82,275) tests in its 2,134
laboratories. The number,
though large, represents only 10
per cent of India’s estimated
population. There is a strong
chancethatasignificantsegment
of the untested population acts
as asymptomatic carriers. A
majority of people tend to feel
that seemingly healthy people –
whether they are colleagues,
neighboursorrelatives–aredis-
ease-free. They tend to socialise
with them even without mini-
mally protective face masks. At
fast food eating joints, many
don’t hesitate to eat (naturally
without masks) alongside com-
plete strangers. It hardly occurs
to them that the other person
couldeitherbeanasymptomatic
carrierifnotpassingthroughthe
incubation period. The
Governmentadcampaignshave
failedtoeducatethemuponthis
aspect. They have even failed to
educate people on immunity-
boosting methods as prescribed
by theAYUSHMinistry.Taking
up real-life situations in cam-
paigns could have helped in
stallingthissurge.Onecouldeas-
ily have used animation or clay-
mationifactualshootinginvolv-
inghumanbeingswasproblem-
atic. Till we drill the risk factors
graphicallyinthecommonman’s
mind, a Bollywood star cannot
do much.
(The writer is an author and
independent researcher based in
New Delhi. Views expressed are
personal)
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