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As the country on Monday
entered the “lockdown-4
phase”, State Governments
largely reactivated economic
activities, including markets,
saloons, private taxis, autos,
even inter-State movement of
passenger buses and vehicles.
But malls, metro rails, domes-
tic and international flights,
colleges, schools, religious
political gathering remained in
the prohibited list.
Different States have given
leeway to economic activities in
the green and orange zones and
narrowed down their enforce-
ment of lockdown guidelines to
only containment zones. Some
States, like Karnataka and West
Bengal, have permitted open-
ing of salons and barber’s shops
where close contacts with the
customers is possible. In con-
trast Delhi has not allowed bar-
ber shops, spas and salons to
open yet.
Telangana too has allowed
salons to open and permitted
bus services within the State.
Walmart-owned Flipkart
said it is awaiting advisories
from different States for resum-
ing full services, including in
red zones, a day after Home
Ministry’s guidelines on lock-
down 4.0 were released.
Parks and sports complex-
es will be open with the norms
of “social distancing” but step-
ping out of homes between 7
pm and 7 am, except for essen-
tial services will be prohibited.
Taxis and cabs will be allowed
but only 2 passengers at a time
in a car. The Government and
private offices too were allowed
to work with restricted staff.
Centre has allowed States
for inter-State passenger bus
and vehicle bus services with
the mutual consent. The move
will greatly ease public trans-
portation and is likely to come
to immediate help mitigate the
plight of migrant labour on the
roads due to the nation-wide
lockdown entering 54th day.
The night curfew, between
7 pm and 7 am, will continue
in all zones. Hotels, restaurants
and other hospitality services,
except for the running of can-
teens in bus depots, railway sta-
tions and airports, will not be
allowed.
Maharashtra, the worst
affected State in the country
and particularly its Capital
Mumbai with nearly 20 per
cent of coronavirus cases in the
country, will not experience
relaxations in major part of the
city.
Saying Mumbai is still a
Covid-19 red zone, authorities
have not eased restrictions and
warned people about strong
action against violators in the
fourth phase of the nationwide
lockdown.
Taking a rather relaxed
view of coronavirus situation,
Karnataka has allowed major
concessions for re-starting eco-
nomic activities. Chief Minister
BS Yediyurappa, however, said
people from four States —
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil
Nadu and Kerala — will not be
allowed entry into the State till
May 31.
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In the wake of huge move-
ment of migrants from across
the States, the Indian Council
of Medical Council (ICMR) on
Monday revised its testing
strategy mandating all patients
of severe acute respiratory
infection (SARI) to be tested
for the Covid-19 regardless of
travel or contact history.
Frontline workers involved in
containment and mitigation
of Covid-19 will also be tested.
This comes even as the
Government has maintained
that there is no community
transmission in the country.
Testing has been one of the
concerns in India’s manage-
ment of the Covid-19. Many
experts have said India’s testing
strategy is too restrictive.
According to new strategy,
no emergency procedure
(including deliveries) should be
delayed for the lack of test. But
the sample can be sent for test-
ing simultaneously if the per-
son showed symptoms pre-
scribed in the guideline.
Beside the earlier cate-
gories of individuals fitting the
testing criteria, the ICMR said
asymptomatic direct and high-
risk contacts of confirmed
cases be tested once between
day 5 and day 10 of coming
into contact.
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India crossed a dubious mile-
stone in the spread of coro-
na cases on Monday when its
overall count crossed 1,00,000
cases with 3,155 deaths as the
deadly virus continued to
spread across the country with
alarming speed. With around
4,641 new cases, the country ‘s
total stood at 1,00,340 cases.
New cases were still coming in
from different states and the
overall coutn could go up.
According to the data from
the States, the highest number
of confirmed cases in the
country are from Maharashtra
at 35,086, Gujarat at 11,746,
Delhi at 10,054, Rajasthan at
5,505, Madhya Pradesh at
5,326 and Uttar Pradesh at
4,605.
Maharashtra followed by
Tamil Nadu were the two top
contributors of new cases on
Monday. They were followed
by Gujarat, , Madhya Pradesh,
Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar
Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar,
Karnataka and Andhra
Pradesh in that order.
Maharashtra reported
2,033 cases and 51 deaths tak-
ing its overall tally to 35,086.
They were followed by Tamil
Nadu which chipped in with
536 cases and three more
death, taking its overall count
to 11,760 and 82 deaths.
Madhya Pradesh reported
259 new cases and 4 death to
take its overall count to 5,236
and 252 deaths. Uttar Pradesh
recorded 141 new cases and no
death, while West Bengal
reported 149 new cases and 6
deaths.
Even as India crossed 1
lakh mark on the first day of
the Lockdown 4 on Monday,
the Government found solace
in the fact that at 7.1 cases per
lakh, the Coronavirus ratio is
lowest in world.
“In terms of confirmed
cases per lakh population,
India has so far about 7.1
cases per lakh population vis a
vis approx 60 cases per lakh
population for the world as a
whole,” said an official from
the Union Health Ministry.
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The equity market tanked on
Monday sending clear sig-
nal about the participants’ dis-
appointment over the stimulus
package announced by the
Government even as global
investment firm Goldman
Sachs saw India slipping into a
major recession. The market
fell for the third consecutive
day, each day responding to the
separate tranches of stimulus
announced by the Finance
Minister.
Benchmark Sensex crashed
1,069 points tracking massive
selloffs in banking and auto
stocks. The 30-share BSE index
ended at 30,028.98, while the
broader NSE Nifty plunged
313.60 points to 8,823.25.
IndusInd Bank was the
top laggard in the Sensex pack,
cracking around 10 per cent,
followed by HDFC, Maruti
Suzuki, Axis Bank and
UltraTech Cement. On the
other hand, TCS, Infosys, ITC
and HCL closed with gains.
Traders and investors
remained on edge as the Home
Ministry extended the lock-
down for another two weeks till
May 31 to contain the spread
of coronavirus, said Narendra
Solanki, Head Equity Research
(Fundamental), Anand Rathi.
The relief package
announcements appeared
falling short of meeting market
expectations on any demand
side reforms, triggering an
intense selloff in the domestic
market, he noted.
The Government, in its
first four tranches of the stim-
ulus package, focussed on cred-
it line to small businesses and
new fund creations to be shoul-
dered by banks and financial
institutions with very little
extra budget spending.
In the last set of measures,
the Centre on Sunday
announced plans to privatise
PSUs in non-strategic sectors
and suspend loan default-trig-
gered bankruptcy filings for
one year, and also gave
a Rs 40,000-crore hike in allo-
cation for the rural employ-
ment guarantee scheme to pro-
v i d e
jobs to migrant workers.
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As the migrant workers issue
has taken a political turn
between the Congress and the
BJP, the Uttar Pradesh
Government has accepted
Congress national general sec-
retary Priyanka Gandhi’s offer
to provide 1,000 buses to trans-
port migrant workers.
UP Additional Chief
Secretary Awanish Awasthi
said the Government has
accepted the Congress pro-
posal and asked them to fur-
nish details of 1,000 buses.
Congress president Ajay
Kumar ‘Lallu’ claimed to have
handed over the list of buses
they had provided on the bor-
ders to ferry the migrant work-
ers.
But taking a jibe at the
Congress, Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath has asked Priyanka
Gandhi why migrant workers
from Congress-ruled States
were sent in trucks if the
Congress-ruled States had so
many buses.
Yogi’s tweets were in
response to an emotional tweet
from Priyanka Gandhi where
she had asked the UP
Government to allow entry of
1,000 buses which the Congress
had arranged to ferry migrant
workers to their native
districts.
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Despite lockdown restric-
tions, a sensational
shootout took place in
Ayodhya on Monday in which
two persons, including a rep-
resentative of BJP MP Lallu
Singh, were killed.
The incident took place
when Lallu Singh’s representa-
tive Jai Prakash Singh report-
edly called a panchayat at
Paliya Pratap Shah village
under Haringtonganj Block of
the district on Monday morn-
ing. Reports confirmed that
several villagers were present as
Singh was also sitting pradhan
of the village.
The situation took a violent
turn when history sheeter
Nanha Yadav, opened fire at
Singh after some heated argu-
ments.
Agitated with the firing, the
villagers also opened fire with
their weapons in which Nanha
Yadav died on the spot. Singh
was rushed to District Hospital
where seeing his condition to
be “critical”, his supporters
staged demonstration asking
him to be shifted to Trauma
Centre at KGMU. However,
before the authorities could
take any decision, Singh also
succumbed at the hospital.
Local police registered a case
and were making further inves-
tigation.
sIn another incident in
Ayodhya, body of Mansaram,
having his history-sheet with
Maharajganj police station, was
found buried under the sand
on the banks of Saryu river in
Salempur Majha on Monday.
The body was two days old and
the police arrested Mahesh
Verma, a property dealer and
three of his accomplices in
this regard.
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Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal on the
first day of lockdown 4.0 on
Monday emphasised on the
importance of gradual revival
of economic activities with
certain relaxation and a few
restrictions amid corona in the
national Capital which saw
1,0054 positive cases.
The CM announced open-
ing of shops in markets on an
odd-even basis and running of
buses with only 20 passengers,
but said Metro services,
schools, colleges, cinema halls
and saloons will remain
closed.
Addressing an online
media briefing here, Kejriwal
said, “We have to gradually
move towards opening the
economy. We used the lock-
down period to make
arrangements to deal with
Covid-19.”
People boarding buses in
the city will have to be
screened first, he said, adding
that four-wheeler vehicles,
including taxis, will be allowed
with only two passengers.
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On the day one of lockdown
4.0, heavy vehicular traf-
fic was witnessed on Monday
at the Delhi-Gurugram and
Delhi-Noida borders. There
were long queues of vehicles at
Delhi-Noida border on
Monday morning.
The Delhi Traffic Police
advised people to avoid cross-
ing border via Kalindi Kundi
and DND without an e-pass as
the Uttar Pradesh Police was
allowing vehicles only with
movement pass.
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to 286 in the district. Chinese
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storm Amphan on
Monday turned into a super
cyclonic storm and thousands
of people have been evacuated
from low lying coastal areas in
Odisha and West Bengal.
Amphan has potential to
extensive damages to proper-
ty and infrastructure in coastal
areas of north Odisha and
West Bengal. Army, Navy, Air
Force and Coast Guard have
been put on high alert.
According to Mrutyunjay
Mohapatra, Director General
of India Meteorological
Department (IMD), super
cyclone will arrive with a wind
speed up to at 250 km per hour
and it will hit the West Bengal
on May 20. “Amphan will
make landfall in some area
between Digha of West Bengal
and Hatia Island of
Bangladesh, both are highly
populated areas,” he said.
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storm surge of 4-6 metre
height above astronomical tide,
will inundate low lying coastal
areas and likely to inundate low
lying areas of South North
24 Parganas and about 4-6
metres over the low lying areas
of East Medinipur of West
Bengal during the time of
landfall.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi has also held a high level
meeting with officials of the
Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA) and the National
Disaster Management
Authority (NDMA) to review
the arising cyclone Amphan
situation in different parts of
the country and to assess the
situation that may arise after
the landfall.
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Himachal Chief Minister Jai
Ram Thakur on Monday
launched 'One Nation One
Ration' card scheme under the
Interstate Portability Scheme of
Department of Food, Civil
Supplies and Consumer Affairs
for all migrant labourers here.
He said this would help the
consumers to take ration from
any fair price shop in the coun-
try, adding that this would be
done through National
Portability Scheme of Ration
Card. He said that it would
benefit about 67 crore people of
the country and lakhs of peo-
ple of the State.
Thakur said that Central
Government has decided to
provide free food grain for two
months to about eight crore
migrant labourers of the coun-
try and those labourers who do
not have ration card would also
be provided free five kilogram
wheat or rice per person and
one kilogram pulse per month.
The CM said 2864.46
tonne food grains have been
allocated to Himachal Pradesh
under this scheme which
would go a long way in facili-
tating the State Government to
provide this ration to the tar-
geted groups at the earliest.
THAKUR MEETS INDUS-
TRIAL ASSOCIATIONS
Chief Minister Jai Ram
Thakur said that under
Mukhya Mantri Swavlamban
Yojna investment subsidy at 25
percent was being provided for
projects having investment
upto Rs. 60 lakh for youth and
30 percent for projects having
investments upto Rs. 60 lakh
for women entrepreneurs. He
said that five percent interest
subsidy would also be provid-
ed for a period of three years.
Presiding over a meeting
with various Industrial
Associations regarding
roadmap for recovery of indus-
trial sector in the wake of
corona pandemic here, Thakur
said the State Government has
also deferred demand charges
of power by three months and
power bill payment has been
deferred without late fee by
HPSEB.
The CM said that MSME
sector has been badly affected
due to COVID-19 pandemic
and about 95 percent of the
industries in the State fall
under MSME categories. He
said that steps should be taken
to derive maximum benefits of
this package to revive these
units. He assured that all the
issues raised by the industrial-
ists would be considered sym-
pathetically.
CM URGES CENTRE FOR
ALLOTTING BULK DRUG
PARK
Chief Minister Jai Ram
Thakur on Monday urged the
Union Minister for Chemicals
and Fertilizers D.V. Sadananda
Gowda for allotting one Bulk
Drug Park for the State.
In a letter to the Union
Minister, Chief Minister said
that Himachal Pradesh has
emerged as an important hub
for manufacturing of bulk
drugs and generic medicines
and captured a major portion
of market within the country
and outside.
He said that units located
in the State have shown great
interest in establishing a Bulk
Drug Park in the State prefer-
ably in Baddi-Barotiwala area
of Solan district which was
already a pharma hub. Thakur
said if such Bulk Drug Park was
allotted for Himachal Pradesh,
the State would surely emerge
as the most prominent hub of
production of APIs and Drug
Intermediates in the country
catering to the needs of drug
industry both nationally and
internationally.
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At least five new cases of
COVID-19 infection were
reported in Jharkhand on
Monday – one each from
Hazaribag, East Singhbhum,
West Singhbhum, Dhanbad
and Garhwa, health officials
said. Monday's test reports
take the total count of
Coronavirus cases in State to
228, they added.
Most of the COVID-19
suspects who tested positive in
the past fortnight are migrant
workers, officials said. The five
COVID-19 cases reported on
Monday are also of mostly
migrant workers, they added.
The man, who tested positive
in Hazaribag, worked at a Pav
Bhaji stall in Mumbai, sources
said. He may have got infected
in the Maharashtra capital
itself, they added.
Five cases were reported
on Monday. Most of them are
migrant workers who returned
home recently, said Health
Secretary Nitin Madan
Kulkarni. Kulkarni said that at
least 93 migrant workers who
returned from other states have
tested positive since May 5 – a
statement that clarifies how the
return of migrant workers was
causing an upward trend in the
COVID-19 trajectory here.
The number of contain-
ment zones in Jharkhand have
also increased from 33 to 63 in
the course of a fortnight, offi-
cials said. They added that 25
red zones have been identified
across the country, and pas-
sengers traveling to Jharkhand
from these zones will be put in
Government quarantine for
tests. They will later be allowed
to stay in home quarantine.
According to National
Health Mission (NHM), at
least 127 of the 228 patients
here – more than 50 per cent–
have recovered from the viral
infection and discharged from
hospital. Interestingly, most of
them did not show any of the
COVID-19 symptoms during
their treatment, said doctors
from Rajendra Institute of
Medical Sciences (RIMS) in
Ranchi.
While 117 of the 228 cases
reported in Jharkhand by
Monday evening are in the age
bracket of 11 to 30 years, 78 are
in the age bracket of 31 to 50
years, the NHM report said. At
least nine children, below the
age of 10 years, have been
infected by the virus in
Jharkhand so far, the report
added.
The Government has col-
lected samples of around
40,000 suspects so far, and
tested 35,000 of them, an NHM
bulletin said. As many as 1552
samples were tested on
Wednesday and five of them
came out positive, the bulletin
further said.
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Ranchi is on its way moving
from Red to Orange zone,
clearing the way for restarting
economic activity as the num-
ber of active coronavirus cases
has come down to 13. On
Monday seven patients recov-
ering from disease were dis-
charged. As per district admin-
istration figures, out of total 105
Covid 19 patients, 90 have
recovered from disease, while
two persons have died due to
infection.
Ranchi Deputy
Commissioner (DC) Rai
Mahimapat Ray said, “Due to
team work of district adminis-
tration officials, doctors and
para medics, 90 patients have
recovered from disease. The
recovery rate of patients is
much higher than many dis-
tricts in country.”
The first case of transmis-
sion of disease in State Capital
was traced on March 31, when
a Malaysian woman staying in
Hindpiri area was found with
the infection. The woman
member of Tablighi Jamaat
(Islamic missionary move-
ment) had come from Delhi
carrying the virus. The district
administration then to check
the spread of disease declared
Hindpiri as containment zone
sealing the area, deploying
central security forces and
starting other preventive mea-
sures.
The Centre on mid-April
on the basis of infection clas-
sified districts in three cate-
gories—Red, Green and
Orange. According to the gov-
ernment’s classification, there
were 130 districts out of a
total of 733 that were put in the
red zone. Sources said that
red zones are defined consid-
ering a host of parameters
including the number of posi-
tive cases in the district, the
recovery rate, the doubling
rate, the extent of testing and
surveillance feedback from the
districts and the density of
disease clusters etc.While some
businesses and activities that
require mass gatherings like
cinema halls, shopping malls,
sports, religious, social and
political gatherings, clubbing,
schools, colleges, training insti-
tutes and interstate travel by air,
road or rail have not been per-
mitted in any of the zones, sev-
eral other activities have been
allowed in green and orange
zones. Ranchi was only district
in State which was put in red
zone while others were in
orange and green zones.
As the district administra-
tion is planning to restart eco-
nomic activities in Ranchi a
meeting between DC and block
programme officers was held at
DC office. Deputy
Commissioner Rai issuing
directives asked them to restart
MGREGA work so that vil-
lagers and migrant workers
economic condition improves.
The DC said that by May 30,
digging of pits under Birsa
Harit Gram Yojana has to be
completed. The Ranchi district
administration has set a target
of plantation of fruit bearing
plants in 810 acres of land. Also
under Nilamber-Pitamber Jal
Samridhi Yojana (water
scheme) digging of pits and
other irrigation works has to
taken-up.
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Haryana would allow intra
and interstate bus service
from Tuesday, chief minister
Manohar Lal Khattar said on
Monday.
As the fourth phase of
nationwide lockdown due to
the global pandemic COVID-
19 has been implemented and
the scope of relaxations,
allowed during lockdown 3, has
further been widened in accor-
dance with MHA guidelines,
Khattar said in a statement.
He said the restrictions
will continue especially in the
containment zone. Apart from
this the areas other than the
containment zone will be con-
sidered as orange zone and all
non-restricted activities will
resume in such areas.
The Chief Minister said
that in a review meeting mea-
sures to be taken for smooth
power supply during summer
season were discussed, adding
that work regarding issuance of
tubewell connections had been
started and around 1,000 new
tubewells with five-star motors
have been installed while the
remaining such 4,000 tube-
wells will be installed till June
30.
He said that complaints
regarding inflated domestic
electricity bills will also be
taken up and the discrepancies
will be corrected.
Those who have com-
plaints regarding their domes-
tic electricity bills can lodge
their complaints at toll-free
number 1912. The Chief
Minister further added that if
someone has already made the
payment for inflated bills then
they need not worry as the
amount will be adjusted in the
next bill.
?=BQ 270=3860A7
Haryana on Monday report-
ed 18 more Covid cases
and discharged 36 patients
from hospitals even as the
state' s cumulative Covid tally
reached 928, of which 316
cases are active.
Haryana has so far report-
ed 14 corona virus-related
deaths. On Monday, 36 patients
have recovered from various
hospitals of the State over the
last 24 hours. This has
increased the recovery rate.
Now the state's recovery rate
has reached 64.44 percent.
Gurugram on Monday
reported seven more coron-
avirus cases in different areas,
adding to the concerns of dis-
trict authorities since some
cases were reported from new
areas. In Gurugram, a total of
211 cases have been reported
till date, including 97 active
cases admitted in different city
hospitals. As many as 114
patients have been cured and
discharged. As many as 33 per-
sons are under observation of
health officials in different
quarantine facilities. The
Gurugram district adminis-
tration has so far drawn 10,007
samples, of which 9,533 tested
negative. Reports of 263 sam-
ples are still awaited. Gurugram
district currently have 35 con-
tainment zones, including 34 in
Gurugram block.
As many as 36 patients
walked out of hospital from dif-
ferent districts of the State on
Monday. So far, 598 patients
have been cured and dis-
charged from hospitals in
Haryana, including the 14
Italian nationals.
The majority of the new
cases are from NCR districts
–Gurugram, Sonepat and
Faridabad. The worst affected
districts of the State with max-
imum number of positive cases
are Gurugram (211), Faridabad
(150), Sonepat (137), Jhajjar
(90), Nuh (65), Ambala (42)
and Palwal (39), Panipat (36).
?=BQ 270=3860A7
Six fresh positive cases of
Coronavirus were reported
in Chandigarh on Monday
taking the total number to
197.
The fresh positive cases
have been reported after a gap
of four days in the city. All these
positive cases were from con-
tainment zone of Bapu Dham
colony (BDC), which has so far
reported 128 positive cases.
While six fresh cases were
reported, three patients from
BDC were declared cured and
discharged from the Post
Graduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research. The
active cases in the city are now
139 while 54 patients have
been cured of Coronavirus
and discharged from the hos-
pital.
“All new positive cases are
family contacts of previous
cases and were asymptomatic,”
stated the Chandigarh Health
Department’s evening bulletin.
“A 10-year old girl from
Bapu Dham colony, who is a
family contact of another pos-
itive case is found to be posi-
tive of Coronavirus. A 12 years
old male child, 26 years old
female, 29 years old female, 48
years old male and 60 years old
female from BDC have been
tested positive of Coronavirus,”
the bulletin stated.
Eight samples from BDC
were tested negative on
Monday while the report of 32
was awaited till the filing of this
report. 2892 samples have
been tested so far in the city.
Three deaths related to
Coronavirus have been report-
ed, the bulletin added.
The city have six contain-
ment zones including Bapu
Dham colony (BDC), part of
Sector 30-B, Kacchi Colony,
Dhanas, part of Shastri Nagar
(Manimajra), Part of Sector 38
and Part of Sector 52.
THREE PATIENTS DIS-
CHARGED
Three patients including
two males aged 38 and 40 and
one female aged 19, all resi-
dents of Bapu Dham colony
were declared cured of
Coronavirus and were dis-
charged from PGIMER on
Monday.
With two consecutive tests
coming negative for all three of
them, a pre-condition to
declare cured for all COVID--
19 patients, it was decided to
discharge them. With the dis-
charge of these three persons
from Bapu Dham cluster,
PGIMER’s COVID Hospital
has to its credit the successful
recovery of 56 persons, said an
official spokesman of PGIMER.
?=BQ 270=3860A7
Directing the District
Administrations and the
Police to remain on high alert
in the wake of lifting of restric-
tions, Punjab Chief Minister
Capt Amarinder Singh on
Monday directed the Transport
Department to draft standard
operation procedures (SOPs)
for resumption of local bus
movement in all but the con-
tainment zones, but ruled out
inter-state bus service till May
31.
Terming the danger of
spread as a result of mixing of
people with the start of relax-
ations as the real test, the Chief
Minister directed all depart-
ments to ensure close moni-
toring and strict adherence to
all advisories.
The Chief Minister, at a
video conference to review the
COVID and lockdown situa-
tion in the State, asked the
Police Department to be tough
in ensuring social distancing
and other necessary COVID
prevention protocols and to
challan those stepping out
without masks.
Instructions were given to
the Transport Department to
put in place stringent protocols
for handling daily passengers
travelling on point-to-point
inter-state buses which will
start moving after May 31.
Making it clear that inter-
state movement will be allowed
only on special and Shramik
trains “at least till May 31”, the
Chief Minister said that buses
will be allowed to ply within the
state in a phased manner.
A list of SOPs, including
daily disinfection of buses, will
be issued before the resump-
tion of the bus service in the
non-containment zones, he
added. Referring to continued
entry of migrants, NRIs and
others via special trains and
flights, the Chief Minister reit-
erated his earlier directions
for strict adherence to their
quarantine rules. So far, 60,000
Punjabis had registered for
return to the State, he said,
adding that 20,000 NRIs were
also expected to return.
The Chief Minister said
that while Punjab was willing-
ly sending back people, includ-
ing migrants, from other states,
spending Rs 7.5 lakh per train,
other states were not respond-
ing in like and were asking his
Government to arrange for
ferrying Punjabis back from
there.
As of date, more than two
lakh migrants of the 11 lakh
who had registered on the spe-
cial portal created by the gov-
ernment had left Punjab, the
Chief Minister said. As many as
20 trains are leaving Punjab
every day, with 15 scheduled
for Uttar Pradesh and six for
Bihar on Monday.
Capt Amarinder said that
while more trains were need-
ed for Bihar, the State was not
willing to take in people at this
stage as their quarantine facil-
ities were full.
On being informed that the
State was receiving requests
from migrant labour from
other states like UP and Bihar
to return to Punjab to work in
the fields during paddy season,
the Chief Minister directed
the Chief Secretary to work out
the modalities for the same
with the Centre. All such work-
ers shall have to be quarantined
in the villages they would be
working in, he said.
Punjab Food and Civil
Supplies Minister Bharat
Bhushan Ashu said that his
Department was collating data
of migrants based on registra-
tions made for travel, in line
with the Government of India’s
directions on distribution of
rations.
All those coming in are
required to upload a clean
health chit on COVA app, with
checking being done at the bor-
ders on arrival, the Chief
Secretary Karan Avtar Singh
said.
Health Advisor to Punjab
Government Dr KK Talwar
said that analysis showed that
only one percent of the
migrants leaving Punjab were
turning out to be positive,
which was much lower than
the figure of those coming
back.
“The rate of increase in
cases and doubling in
Punjab stands at one percent
and 70 days, as compared
with the national average,”
he said, adding that a review
of the 35 deaths, which
includes 11 male and 24
female, showed that there
was only one case with no
comorbidity, while 16 had a
single comorbidity and
remaining had multiple
comorbid conditions, such
as hypertension, diabetes,
lung infection, obesity etc.
Regarding testing, it was
informed that in a week’s
time, the State would be able
to scale up the number from
current 1400 in government
labs to 4650 per day in just
three government medical
colleges. In the next 25 days,
four more labs in the state
would be ready for testing,
with additional 1000 per day
capacity which would be in
addition to the Central
Government and private test-
ing capacities.
In addition to testing of
inter-state travellers, the Health
Department is now moving
towards testing of all high con-
tact government employees
including Police, Health,
Revenue, Rural Development,
Urban Local Government,
Food and Civil Supplies, Mandi
Board, Procurement Agencies,
high contact persons in agri-
culture harvest and sowing
operations, including combine
harvester operators, truck dri-
vers, loader, unloaders, mandi
labour, commission agents and
mandi supervisors, as well as
high risk persons working in
congested and high contact
areas such as vegetable mandi,
fruit mandi, whole sale market,
retail stores, banks etc.
High risk travelers exposed
to multiple contacts such as
truck drivers, bus drivers, con-
ductors etc will also be tested
in the days ahead.
On the issue of shortage of
doctors, the Chief Secretary
informed the meeting that DCs
were hiring doctors on contract
at the local level for the COVID
Care Centres.
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But malls, metro rails, domes- tic and international flights, colleges, schools, religious political gathering remained in the prohibited list. Different States have given leeway to economic activities in the green and orange zones and narrowed down their enforce- ment of lockdown guidelines to only containment zones. Some States, like Karnataka and West Bengal, have permitted open- ing of salons and barber’s shops where close contacts with the customers is possible. In con- trast Delhi has not allowed bar- ber shops, spas and salons to open yet. Telangana too has allowed salons to open and permitted bus services within the State. Walmart-owned Flipkart said it is awaiting advisories from different States for resum- ing full services, including in red zones, a day after Home Ministry’s guidelines on lock- down 4.0 were released. 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The 30-share BSE index ended at 30,028.98, while the broader NSE Nifty plunged 313.60 points to 8,823.25. IndusInd Bank was the top laggard in the Sensex pack, cracking around 10 per cent, followed by HDFC, Maruti Suzuki, Axis Bank and UltraTech Cement. On the other hand, TCS, Infosys, ITC and HCL closed with gains. Traders and investors remained on edge as the Home Ministry extended the lock- down for another two weeks till May 31 to contain the spread of coronavirus, said Narendra Solanki, Head Equity Research (Fundamental), Anand Rathi. The relief package announcements appeared falling short of meeting market expectations on any demand side reforms, triggering an intense selloff in the domestic market, he noted. The Government, in its first four tranches of the stim- ulus package, focussed on cred- it line to small businesses and new fund creations to be shoul- dered by banks and financial institutions with very little extra budget spending. In the last set of measures, the Centre on Sunday announced plans to privatise PSUs in non-strategic sectors and suspend loan default-trig- gered bankruptcy filings for one year, and also gave a Rs 40,000-crore hike in allo- cation for the rural employ- ment guarantee scheme to pro- v i d e jobs to migrant workers. ?=BQ ;D2:=F As the migrant workers issue has taken a political turn between the Congress and the BJP, the Uttar Pradesh Government has accepted Congress national general sec- retary Priyanka Gandhi’s offer to provide 1,000 buses to trans- port migrant workers. UP Additional Chief Secretary Awanish Awasthi said the Government has accepted the Congress pro- posal and asked them to fur- nish details of 1,000 buses. Congress president Ajay Kumar ‘Lallu’ claimed to have handed over the list of buses they had provided on the bor- ders to ferry the migrant work- ers. But taking a jibe at the Congress, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked Priyanka Gandhi why migrant workers from Congress-ruled States were sent in trucks if the Congress-ruled States had so many buses. Yogi’s tweets were in response to an emotional tweet from Priyanka Gandhi where she had asked the UP Government to allow entry of 1,000 buses which the Congress had arranged to ferry migrant workers to their native districts. ?=BQ ;D2:=F Despite lockdown restric- tions, a sensational shootout took place in Ayodhya on Monday in which two persons, including a rep- resentative of BJP MP Lallu Singh, were killed. The incident took place when Lallu Singh’s representa- tive Jai Prakash Singh report- edly called a panchayat at Paliya Pratap Shah village under Haringtonganj Block of the district on Monday morn- ing. Reports confirmed that several villagers were present as Singh was also sitting pradhan of the village. The situation took a violent turn when history sheeter Nanha Yadav, opened fire at Singh after some heated argu- ments. Agitated with the firing, the villagers also opened fire with their weapons in which Nanha Yadav died on the spot. Singh was rushed to District Hospital where seeing his condition to be “critical”, his supporters staged demonstration asking him to be shifted to Trauma Centre at KGMU. However, before the authorities could take any decision, Singh also succumbed at the hospital. Local police registered a case and were making further inves- tigation. sIn another incident in Ayodhya, body of Mansaram, having his history-sheet with Maharajganj police station, was found buried under the sand on the banks of Saryu river in Salempur Majha on Monday. The body was two days old and the police arrested Mahesh Verma, a property dealer and three of his accomplices in this regard. 5ZWWVcV_edec`VdW`cUZWWVcV_eW`]d6WDWHV¶ UHVSRQVH WR OLIWLQJ FXUEV YDULHG B0?=0B8=67Q =4F34;78 Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on the first day of lockdown 4.0 on Monday emphasised on the importance of gradual revival of economic activities with certain relaxation and a few restrictions amid corona in the national Capital which saw 1,0054 positive cases. The CM announced open- ing of shops in markets on an odd-even basis and running of buses with only 20 passengers, but said Metro services, schools, colleges, cinema halls and saloons will remain closed. Addressing an online media briefing here, Kejriwal said, “We have to gradually move towards opening the economy. We used the lock- down period to make arrangements to deal with Covid-19.” People boarding buses in the city will have to be screened first, he said, adding that four-wheeler vehicles, including taxis, will be allowed with only two passengers. BC055A4?AC4AQ =4F 34;78 On the day one of lockdown 4.0, heavy vehicular traf- fic was witnessed on Monday at the Delhi-Gurugram and Delhi-Noida borders. There were long queues of vehicles at Delhi-Noida border on Monday morning. 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He said this would help the consumers to take ration from any fair price shop in the coun- try, adding that this would be done through National Portability Scheme of Ration Card. He said that it would benefit about 67 crore people of the country and lakhs of peo- ple of the State. Thakur said that Central Government has decided to provide free food grain for two months to about eight crore migrant labourers of the coun- try and those labourers who do not have ration card would also be provided free five kilogram wheat or rice per person and one kilogram pulse per month. The CM said 2864.46 tonne food grains have been allocated to Himachal Pradesh under this scheme which would go a long way in facili- tating the State Government to provide this ration to the tar- geted groups at the earliest. THAKUR MEETS INDUS- TRIAL ASSOCIATIONS Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said that under Mukhya Mantri Swavlamban Yojna investment subsidy at 25 percent was being provided for projects having investment upto Rs. 60 lakh for youth and 30 percent for projects having investments upto Rs. 60 lakh for women entrepreneurs. He said that five percent interest subsidy would also be provid- ed for a period of three years. Presiding over a meeting with various Industrial Associations regarding roadmap for recovery of indus- trial sector in the wake of corona pandemic here, Thakur said the State Government has also deferred demand charges of power by three months and power bill payment has been deferred without late fee by HPSEB. The CM said that MSME sector has been badly affected due to COVID-19 pandemic and about 95 percent of the industries in the State fall under MSME categories. He said that steps should be taken to derive maximum benefits of this package to revive these units. He assured that all the issues raised by the industrial- ists would be considered sym- pathetically. CM URGES CENTRE FOR ALLOTTING BULK DRUG PARK Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday urged the Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers D.V. Sadananda Gowda for allotting one Bulk Drug Park for the State. In a letter to the Union Minister, Chief Minister said that Himachal Pradesh has emerged as an important hub for manufacturing of bulk drugs and generic medicines and captured a major portion of market within the country and outside. He said that units located in the State have shown great interest in establishing a Bulk Drug Park in the State prefer- ably in Baddi-Barotiwala area of Solan district which was already a pharma hub. Thakur said if such Bulk Drug Park was allotted for Himachal Pradesh, the State would surely emerge as the most prominent hub of production of APIs and Drug Intermediates in the country catering to the needs of drug industry both nationally and internationally. +LPDFKDO 0 ODXQFKHV 2QH 1DWLRQ 2QH 5DWLRQ DUG 6FKHPH IRU 6WDWH ?=BQ A0=278 At least five new cases of COVID-19 infection were reported in Jharkhand on Monday – one each from Hazaribag, East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum, Dhanbad and Garhwa, health officials said. Monday's test reports take the total count of Coronavirus cases in State to 228, they added. Most of the COVID-19 suspects who tested positive in the past fortnight are migrant workers, officials said. The five COVID-19 cases reported on Monday are also of mostly migrant workers, they added. The man, who tested positive in Hazaribag, worked at a Pav Bhaji stall in Mumbai, sources said. He may have got infected in the Maharashtra capital itself, they added. Five cases were reported on Monday. Most of them are migrant workers who returned home recently, said Health Secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni. Kulkarni said that at least 93 migrant workers who returned from other states have tested positive since May 5 – a statement that clarifies how the return of migrant workers was causing an upward trend in the COVID-19 trajectory here. The number of contain- ment zones in Jharkhand have also increased from 33 to 63 in the course of a fortnight, offi- cials said. They added that 25 red zones have been identified across the country, and pas- sengers traveling to Jharkhand from these zones will be put in Government quarantine for tests. They will later be allowed to stay in home quarantine. According to National Health Mission (NHM), at least 127 of the 228 patients here – more than 50 per cent– have recovered from the viral infection and discharged from hospital. Interestingly, most of them did not show any of the COVID-19 symptoms during their treatment, said doctors from Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi. While 117 of the 228 cases reported in Jharkhand by Monday evening are in the age bracket of 11 to 30 years, 78 are in the age bracket of 31 to 50 years, the NHM report said. At least nine children, below the age of 10 years, have been infected by the virus in Jharkhand so far, the report added. The Government has col- lected samples of around 40,000 suspects so far, and tested 35,000 of them, an NHM bulletin said. As many as 1552 samples were tested on Wednesday and five of them came out positive, the bulletin further said. AB70=:D0AQ A0=278 Ranchi is on its way moving from Red to Orange zone, clearing the way for restarting economic activity as the num- ber of active coronavirus cases has come down to 13. On Monday seven patients recov- ering from disease were dis- charged. As per district admin- istration figures, out of total 105 Covid 19 patients, 90 have recovered from disease, while two persons have died due to infection. Ranchi Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rai Mahimapat Ray said, “Due to team work of district adminis- tration officials, doctors and para medics, 90 patients have recovered from disease. The recovery rate of patients is much higher than many dis- tricts in country.” The first case of transmis- sion of disease in State Capital was traced on March 31, when a Malaysian woman staying in Hindpiri area was found with the infection. The woman member of Tablighi Jamaat (Islamic missionary move- ment) had come from Delhi carrying the virus. The district administration then to check the spread of disease declared Hindpiri as containment zone sealing the area, deploying central security forces and starting other preventive mea- sures. The Centre on mid-April on the basis of infection clas- sified districts in three cate- gories—Red, Green and Orange. According to the gov- ernment’s classification, there were 130 districts out of a total of 733 that were put in the red zone. Sources said that red zones are defined consid- ering a host of parameters including the number of posi- tive cases in the district, the recovery rate, the doubling rate, the extent of testing and surveillance feedback from the districts and the density of disease clusters etc.While some businesses and activities that require mass gatherings like cinema halls, shopping malls, sports, religious, social and political gatherings, clubbing, schools, colleges, training insti- tutes and interstate travel by air, road or rail have not been per- mitted in any of the zones, sev- eral other activities have been allowed in green and orange zones. Ranchi was only district in State which was put in red zone while others were in orange and green zones. As the district administra- tion is planning to restart eco- nomic activities in Ranchi a meeting between DC and block programme officers was held at DC office. Deputy Commissioner Rai issuing directives asked them to restart MGREGA work so that vil- lagers and migrant workers economic condition improves. The DC said that by May 30, digging of pits under Birsa Harit Gram Yojana has to be completed. The Ranchi district administration has set a target of plantation of fruit bearing plants in 810 acres of land. Also under Nilamber-Pitamber Jal Samridhi Yojana (water scheme) digging of pits and other irrigation works has to taken-up. ?=BQ 270=3860A7 Haryana would allow intra and interstate bus service from Tuesday, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Monday. As the fourth phase of nationwide lockdown due to the global pandemic COVID- 19 has been implemented and the scope of relaxations, allowed during lockdown 3, has further been widened in accor- dance with MHA guidelines, Khattar said in a statement. He said the restrictions will continue especially in the containment zone. Apart from this the areas other than the containment zone will be con- sidered as orange zone and all non-restricted activities will resume in such areas. The Chief Minister said that in a review meeting mea- sures to be taken for smooth power supply during summer season were discussed, adding that work regarding issuance of tubewell connections had been started and around 1,000 new tubewells with five-star motors have been installed while the remaining such 4,000 tube- wells will be installed till June 30. He said that complaints regarding inflated domestic electricity bills will also be taken up and the discrepancies will be corrected. Those who have com- plaints regarding their domes- tic electricity bills can lodge their complaints at toll-free number 1912. The Chief Minister further added that if someone has already made the payment for inflated bills then they need not worry as the amount will be adjusted in the next bill. ?=BQ 270=3860A7 Haryana on Monday report- ed 18 more Covid cases and discharged 36 patients from hospitals even as the state' s cumulative Covid tally reached 928, of which 316 cases are active. Haryana has so far report- ed 14 corona virus-related deaths. On Monday, 36 patients have recovered from various hospitals of the State over the last 24 hours. This has increased the recovery rate. Now the state's recovery rate has reached 64.44 percent. Gurugram on Monday reported seven more coron- avirus cases in different areas, adding to the concerns of dis- trict authorities since some cases were reported from new areas. In Gurugram, a total of 211 cases have been reported till date, including 97 active cases admitted in different city hospitals. As many as 114 patients have been cured and discharged. As many as 33 per- sons are under observation of health officials in different quarantine facilities. The Gurugram district adminis- tration has so far drawn 10,007 samples, of which 9,533 tested negative. Reports of 263 sam- ples are still awaited. Gurugram district currently have 35 con- tainment zones, including 34 in Gurugram block. As many as 36 patients walked out of hospital from dif- ferent districts of the State on Monday. So far, 598 patients have been cured and dis- charged from hospitals in Haryana, including the 14 Italian nationals. The majority of the new cases are from NCR districts –Gurugram, Sonepat and Faridabad. The worst affected districts of the State with max- imum number of positive cases are Gurugram (211), Faridabad (150), Sonepat (137), Jhajjar (90), Nuh (65), Ambala (42) and Palwal (39), Panipat (36). ?=BQ 270=3860A7 Six fresh positive cases of Coronavirus were reported in Chandigarh on Monday taking the total number to 197. The fresh positive cases have been reported after a gap of four days in the city. All these positive cases were from con- tainment zone of Bapu Dham colony (BDC), which has so far reported 128 positive cases. While six fresh cases were reported, three patients from BDC were declared cured and discharged from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research. The active cases in the city are now 139 while 54 patients have been cured of Coronavirus and discharged from the hos- pital. “All new positive cases are family contacts of previous cases and were asymptomatic,” stated the Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin. “A 10-year old girl from Bapu Dham colony, who is a family contact of another pos- itive case is found to be posi- tive of Coronavirus. A 12 years old male child, 26 years old female, 29 years old female, 48 years old male and 60 years old female from BDC have been tested positive of Coronavirus,” the bulletin stated. Eight samples from BDC were tested negative on Monday while the report of 32 was awaited till the filing of this report. 2892 samples have been tested so far in the city. Three deaths related to Coronavirus have been report- ed, the bulletin added. The city have six contain- ment zones including Bapu Dham colony (BDC), part of Sector 30-B, Kacchi Colony, Dhanas, part of Shastri Nagar (Manimajra), Part of Sector 38 and Part of Sector 52. THREE PATIENTS DIS- CHARGED Three patients including two males aged 38 and 40 and one female aged 19, all resi- dents of Bapu Dham colony were declared cured of Coronavirus and were dis- charged from PGIMER on Monday. With two consecutive tests coming negative for all three of them, a pre-condition to declare cured for all COVID-- 19 patients, it was decided to discharge them. With the dis- charge of these three persons from Bapu Dham cluster, PGIMER’s COVID Hospital has to its credit the successful recovery of 56 persons, said an official spokesman of PGIMER. ?=BQ 270=3860A7 Directing the District Administrations and the Police to remain on high alert in the wake of lifting of restric- tions, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday directed the Transport Department to draft standard operation procedures (SOPs) for resumption of local bus movement in all but the con- tainment zones, but ruled out inter-state bus service till May 31. Terming the danger of spread as a result of mixing of people with the start of relax- ations as the real test, the Chief Minister directed all depart- ments to ensure close moni- toring and strict adherence to all advisories. The Chief Minister, at a video conference to review the COVID and lockdown situa- tion in the State, asked the Police Department to be tough in ensuring social distancing and other necessary COVID prevention protocols and to challan those stepping out without masks. Instructions were given to the Transport Department to put in place stringent protocols for handling daily passengers travelling on point-to-point inter-state buses which will start moving after May 31. Making it clear that inter- state movement will be allowed only on special and Shramik trains “at least till May 31”, the Chief Minister said that buses will be allowed to ply within the state in a phased manner. A list of SOPs, including daily disinfection of buses, will be issued before the resump- tion of the bus service in the non-containment zones, he added. Referring to continued entry of migrants, NRIs and others via special trains and flights, the Chief Minister reit- erated his earlier directions for strict adherence to their quarantine rules. So far, 60,000 Punjabis had registered for return to the State, he said, adding that 20,000 NRIs were also expected to return. The Chief Minister said that while Punjab was willing- ly sending back people, includ- ing migrants, from other states, spending Rs 7.5 lakh per train, other states were not respond- ing in like and were asking his Government to arrange for ferrying Punjabis back from there. As of date, more than two lakh migrants of the 11 lakh who had registered on the spe- cial portal created by the gov- ernment had left Punjab, the Chief Minister said. As many as 20 trains are leaving Punjab every day, with 15 scheduled for Uttar Pradesh and six for Bihar on Monday. Capt Amarinder said that while more trains were need- ed for Bihar, the State was not willing to take in people at this stage as their quarantine facil- ities were full. On being informed that the State was receiving requests from migrant labour from other states like UP and Bihar to return to Punjab to work in the fields during paddy season, the Chief Minister directed the Chief Secretary to work out the modalities for the same with the Centre. All such work- ers shall have to be quarantined in the villages they would be working in, he said. Punjab Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu said that his Department was collating data of migrants based on registra- tions made for travel, in line with the Government of India’s directions on distribution of rations. All those coming in are required to upload a clean health chit on COVA app, with checking being done at the bor- ders on arrival, the Chief Secretary Karan Avtar Singh said. Health Advisor to Punjab Government Dr KK Talwar said that analysis showed that only one percent of the migrants leaving Punjab were turning out to be positive, which was much lower than the figure of those coming back. “The rate of increase in cases and doubling in Punjab stands at one percent and 70 days, as compared with the national average,” he said, adding that a review of the 35 deaths, which includes 11 male and 24 female, showed that there was only one case with no comorbidity, while 16 had a single comorbidity and remaining had multiple comorbid conditions, such as hypertension, diabetes, lung infection, obesity etc. Regarding testing, it was informed that in a week’s time, the State would be able to scale up the number from current 1400 in government labs to 4650 per day in just three government medical colleges. In the next 25 days, four more labs in the state would be ready for testing, with additional 1000 per day capacity which would be in addition to the Central Government and private test- ing capacities. In addition to testing of inter-state travellers, the Health Department is now moving towards testing of all high con- tact government employees including Police, Health, Revenue, Rural Development, Urban Local Government, Food and Civil Supplies, Mandi Board, Procurement Agencies, high contact persons in agri- culture harvest and sowing operations, including combine harvester operators, truck dri- vers, loader, unloaders, mandi labour, commission agents and mandi supervisors, as well as high risk persons working in congested and high contact areas such as vegetable mandi, fruit mandi, whole sale market, retail stores, banks etc. High risk travelers exposed to multiple contacts such as truck drivers, bus drivers, con- ductors etc will also be tested in the days ahead. 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- 3. dccPaPZWP]S347A03D=kCD4B30H k0H (!! ?=BQ 347A03D= After receiving a complaint from a Rudrapur resident against a few police personnel who allegedly entered the com- plainant's house forcefully and beat her family members, the chairperson of State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) Usha Negi asked the Udham Singh Nagar district magistrate for a probe in this matter. According to the complaint letter received by SCPCR, on May 14 about 12 police personnel forcefully entered in the complainant's house during the evening when there was no male family mem- ber present in the house. The police personnel allegedly started to hit the younger siblings of the com- plainant besides her, her moth- er, grandmother and an aunt, as per the letter. According to the complainant, the police forcefully dragged the mother and aunt and took them with themselves. Around 12:30 AM, the mother of the complainant returned but her aunt has not come back since. The complainant has also accused police personnel of beat her 80 year old grand- mother so badly that she is suf- fering from multiple injuries. Negi has asked the DM for an investigation into the allega- tions and to take appropriate action against those found guilty besides subsequently submitting the investigation report to SCPCR within 10 ten days. Meanwhile, the com- plainant has also allegedly filed complaint to other authorities including the Udham Singh Nagar senior superintendent of police, the state’s Director General (DG) of police, National Commission for Women and National Human Rights Commission. ?=BQ =08=8C0; The State Government has informed the Uttarakhand High Court that it is seeking the advice of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) regarding the rapid testing and antigen testing of migrants returning to Uttarakhand at the State’s bor- ders. Considering this, the court has directed the State Government to inform the court about this by May 20. On Monday, the State’s health secretary Nitesh Jha and health director general Dr Amita Upreti informed the court through video confer- encing that the state admin- istration is consulting the ICMR on whether the rapid testing of migrants returning from other states to Uttarakhand can be done at the state’s border. If the ICMR suggests so rapid testing of returning migrants will be started at the State’s border, the officials informed the court. The mat- ter was heard by the division bench of justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ravindra Maithani. Haridwar resident Sacchidanand Dabral had filed a public interest litigation seeking assistance for people affected by the lockdown enforced to contain the spread of Covid-19. During the pre- vious hearing of this PIL, the state’s advocate general had informed the court that about 40,000 migrants from other states are in Uttarakhand while more than two lakh Uttarakhandi migrants and those stranded in other states had registered for returning to Uttarakhand. In this matter, the high court has also asked the state whether it is being able to follow the Food Securities Act 2013 and the Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act 1979. ?=BQ 347A03D= Uttarakhand is expected to emerge as a safe tourist destination in the post-lockdown period. The State Government will plan and undertake a campaign to capitalise on this and revive tourism after the lockdown is lifted, said the chief secretary Utpal Kumar Singh on Monday. The chief secretary said that due to various factors, it is expected that Uttarakhand will emerge as a safe tourist destination after the lockdown is lifted. He said, “We have already brainstormed with tourism depart- ment officials on how to revive tourism in the post-lockdown period. Even now, the State is already receiving queries about some of its tourism aspects like trekking and home stays.” The State will soon plan and launch a campaign to popularise Uttarakhand as a safe destination for tourists after the lockdown is lifted. Earlier, Singh presided over a review meeting of the tourism department. He directed the officials to start preparations for boost tourism related economic activities after the lockdown is lifted. Referring to migrants returning to Uttarakhand, he said that many of them must be considering staying back in the state. Such people should be encouraged to remain in the state, he said, adding that special schemes will have to be pre- pared to facilitate self-employment for such people. Stating that Uttarakhand is in a comparatively better situation when it comes to Covid-19, he said that safe tourism can be encouraged in the state. Citing the effect of lockdown on tourism, Singh said that home stay scheme can play an important role in boosting tourism. This scheme should be strengthened for safe tourism with better connectivity and provision of basic facilities. He also spoke about encouraging medical and AYUSH tourism, stating that there is considerable scope for both medical and AYUSH tourism in Uttarakhand. It is pertinent to mention here that tourism is a major source of income generation in Uttarakhand. The lock- down enforced to contain the spread of Covid-19 had caused considerable loss in the tourism sector. The Char Dham shrines were recently reopened for the summer but presently devotees are not allowed to visit these shrines in view of the regulations to be observed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. ?=BQ 347A03D= The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) is planning to set up its own bio- medical waste treatment plant to dispose of the biomedical waste generated in the city from hospitals and clinics. Currently, the generation of the biomedical waste is in abun- dance in the city due to Covid- 19 pandemic. Since the city has no means of disposing of such a large quantity of biomedical waste, this waste is sent to Roorkee for its disposal by the corporation. While talking to The Pioneer, municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey said, With our own set up of biomedical waste treatment plant in Dehradun, we will not be dependent on others for the biomedical waste disposal. Pandey further informed that MCD was thinking about set- ting up the plant even before the lockdown was implement- ed but further plan- ning and execution will be done only after the lockdown is lifted. On the question of whether the said treatment plant will be set up near the S h e e s h a m b a d a waste management and recycling plant, he said that nothing is confirmed yet about the location of the plant. Talking about the disposal of the garbage collected from containment zones which are sealed by the district adminis- tration to prevent Covid-19 contagion, Pandey said that all the garbage gathered from such zones is primarily disin- fected by sanitation workers. According to him, the garbage is collected in each zone dur- ing the evening after which sanitation workers disinfect it and then it is sanitised again the next morning. Subsequently, the garbage is lifted from each area and then items like masks and gloves are separated from the trash and put in biomedical waste, said Pandey. He further informed that the garbage of the quarantine centres is treated similarly to containment zones whereas the garbage of the home quar- antined people is being treat- ed as routine. Apart from this, Pandey informed that the sanitation workers deployed by MCD from Bijnor, who were staying in Rain Baseras during the lockdown, have returned to their homes too. BcPcTR^]bd[cX]V82A^]aP_XS cTbcX]V^UaTcda]X]VXVaP]cbPcQ^aSTa ?=BQ 347A03D= The returning migrant induced spurt in the Covid- 19 in Uttarakhand is showing no signs of abatement as four new cases of the disease sur- faced in the state on Monday. These cases increased the tally of Covid-19 affected patients in the state to 96. On the day, two cases of the disease were reported from Dehradun while one case each was found in Nainital and Uttarkashi dis- tricts. In Dehradun, a 60 year old woman who had returned from Mumbai on May 14 was found positive for the disease in Basant Vihar area of the city. Similarly a 35 year old male who had a travel history from Mumbai was also found posi- tive for the disease. In Nainital district a 20 year old female who had travelled to the state from Delhi was found positive. In another case of migrants bringing virus in the moun- tainous areas of the state, a 23 year male who has a travel his- tory from Gurugram in Haryana was tested positive for the disease in Uttarkashi dis- trict. The district now has three cases of novel Coronavirus. Dehradun district with 46 cases of the disease constitute almost half of the state’s tally of Covid-19 cases. The additional secretary, state health department, Yugal Kishore Pant said reports of 455 samples were found nega- tive for the disease on Monday while four were found positive. He added that reports of 1087 samples are still awaited by the department. On Monday, a total of 586 samples were collected for Covid -19 testing. The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 13870 suspected patients for Covid-19 test. Out of the total samples taken, 0.78 per cent samples have been found positive for the disease. On Monday the rate of recovery from the Covid-19 in the state was 55.91 per cent. Incidentally the rate was about 67 per cent few days ago. A total of 1488397 people have so far downloaded the Aarogya Setu app on their smart phones. The authorities have kept 52730 people in home quarantine while 6902 people are in facility quaran- tine. The doubling rate of Covid-19 in last seven days is 15.5 days. The state now has 43 active cases in the state with Dehradun district at top of the table with 18 active cases. The Udham Singh Nagar district has 15 active cases while Nainital has six cases. Uttarkashi district has two active cases while Almora and Pauri districts have one active case each. The health depart- ment has appealed that the per- sons who are in home quaran- tine must observe the manda- tory guidelines and should stay in separate room and not ven- ture outside their house. 4`gZU*T`f_e[f^ade`*'Z_F¶YR_U ?=BQ 347A03D= Despite huge increase in number of returning migrants, the collection of samples for testing of Covid - 19 is yet to pick up in moun- tainous districts of Uttarakhand. In the nine mountainous districts of Uttarakhand ( Pauri, Tehri, Chamoli, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Pithoragarh, Champawat, Almora and Bageshwar) the state health department has so far taken only 1153 samples for test of Covid-19. The department has taken 13870 samples so far from all the 13 districts of the state which means that only 8.31 percent of the samples are being taken from the nine dis- tricts of the state. In these districts five patients have so far been test- ed positive for the disease and all of them are those who have returned from outside the state. Incidentally, in last 14-15 days the number of the migrants returning to these nine mountainous districts is much more than the plain dis- tricts of Udham Singh Nagar, Haridwar, Dehradun and Nainital. As per the data of state gov- ernment, a total of 75083 migrants have so far returned to the nine mountainous dis- tricts which constitute about 75 percent of the total returning migrants into the state. The data of the health department shows that in last nine days, 29 new patients have surfaced in the state and all of them were the migrants or their contacts. Due to bet- ter rate of sample collection most of these patients were reported from the plain dis- tricts where much less migrants have returned as compared to mountainous dis- tricts. Health experts express concern that pathetic rate of testing in mountainous districts can be very dangerous consid- ering the poor health services in these districts. Social activist and health expert, Anoop Nautiyal said that in view of large numbers of returning migrants, the sample testing should be taken on a war footing. Giving the example of neigh- bouring Himachal Pradesh, he said, “Uttarakhand with a population of 1 Crore has done 13212 tests and Himachal Pradesh with a population of 69 Lakh has done 17417 tests. Tripura which has only 37 per cent of population of Uttarakhand has done 4 per cent more tests than it. Jammu and Kashmir with a population of 1.22 Crore has done 80934 tests which is 600 per cent more than us.’’ In Uttarakhand the sam- ples for Covid-19 are tested at Government Medical College Haldwani, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Government Doon Medical College (GDMC), Dehradun and Government Medical College, Srinagar. A private laboratory (Ahuja Lab) in Dehradun has also been approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to conduct tests. The Additional secretary, health and family welfare department, Yugal Kishore Pant had recently claimed that the pool testing technique would be adopted for increas- ing the capacity of the sample testing. However tests based on this technique have not start- ed yet in the labs of the state. ][h'^Uc^cP[ 'bP_[TbcPZT] X]]X]T^d]cPX]^db SXbcaXRcb^UD³ZWP]S TeT]PbcWTbT SXbcaXRcbPRR^d]cU^a $^UaTcda]X]V XVaP]cb CF20B4B5C74 38B40B45D=38= 347A03D=F78;4 =4?0C84=C4027 BDA50248= =08=8C0;0=3 DCC0A:0B78 38BCA82CB D´ZWP]STg_TRcTSc^TTaVTPbbPUTc^daXbcSTbcX]PcX^]PUcTa[^RZS^f] =34d_cUde`Ydc_g^RY_]UTYSQ gQcdU`Q^dQVdUb_S[T_g^U^Tc ?=BQ 347A03D= The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief, Pritam Singh has suggested that the arrangement of quar- antine for the returning migrants should be made at the base camps in the State. He said that the State Government should set up quarantine centres at district, Tehsil or block headquarters for migrants when the number of migrants in these base camps increase. In a letter directed to the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, the PCC chief said that large numbers of migrants stranded in different parts of the country are return- ing to their homes in the state. As per the guidelines of the Union Government, these migrants are needed to be quarantined compulsorily. He said that in view of the safety of the people of the rural areas, the State Government should make arrangement for their quarantine at the base camps itself. Singh added that when the numbers of migrants increase beyond the capacity of these base camps, the migrants should be kept at district and block headquarters so that the disease is prevented from spreading to the villages. He said that at present after the thermal scanning the returning migrants are sent directly to their villages and all the responsibility is laid over the village Pradhans. He added that in view of huge number of returning migrants, the Pradhans bereft of resources are finding it very hard to manage things. In his letter to the CM, the PCC chief said that managing for upkeep, food, shelter and quar- antine is too much a task for the Pradhans. B= SXbcaXRc BP_[TbcPZT] XVaP]cb ?^bXcXeT !_Ph ' cX[[Ph RPbTb 0[^aP !%'# ! ! 1PVTbWfPa $% #%$ 2WP^[X %( '!# # 2WP_PfPc # !$%% $ ?PdaX6PaWfP[ ! '! ! % ?XcW^aPVPaW % # AdSaP_aPhPV ( ' ' CTWaX6PaWfP[ #' $$ ( DccPaZPbWX $' !$%', CC0; $ $' $ ?^^acTbcX]VPaTRX_TU^aSXbPbcTaX]WX[[b. CPQ[TbW^fX]VbP_[TR^[[TRcX^]P]S aTcda]X]VXVaP]cbX]^d]cPX]^dbSXbcaXRcb @bUfU^dfYbec Vb_]c`bUQTY^Wd_ fYQWUc*@bYdQ] B2?2AbTTZb_a^QTPVPX]bc AdSaP_da_^[XRT_Tab^]]T[ ?=BQ 347A03D= According to the new cate- gorisation of the districts for the fourth phase of lock- down till May 31, there is not a single Red zone district in the state at present. Further, all shops will be allowed to open in Orange and Green zones daily from 7 AM to 4 PM. However, to prevent crowding, the odd-even formula will be applied to private four-wheel- ers according to the date in seven cities of the state, informed the chief secretary Utpal Kumar Singh on Monday. He informed that following the criteria set by the Centre, the State Government has cat- egorised Bageshwar, Chamoli, Champawat, Haridwar, Pithoragarh, Tehri and Rudraprayag districts as Green zones while Dehradun, Almora, Nainital, Pauri, Udham Singh Nagar and Uttarkashi districts have been categorised as Orange zones. The number of total active cases per one lakh population, doubling rate in last seven days, fatality rate, testing ratio and test positivity rate are the factors considered in categori- sation of districts. Singh informed that as per Central directions, the district magistrate will ascertain con- tainment zones and buffer zones in the district. The ear- lier restrictions and relaxations will continue in Red zones. Inter-state transport will remain prohibited in general though in special circum- stances, permission for this will be granted by the state’s nodal officer, divisional com- missioner and the district mag- istrate. In the Green and Orange zone districts, inter- state and intra-state public transport will be allowed at 50 per cent capacity. For inter-state public transport, Uttarakhand government will await cate- gorisation of districts in other states, according to which such transportation will be facilitat- ed. In both inter-state and intra-state public transport, the Central and State govern- ment guidelines regarding social distancing and other directions will have to be fol- lowed. The transport department will issue standard operating procedures for this purpose. The operation of salons, spas, beauty parlours, restaurants etc will remain prohibited in Red zones till May 31. However, salons, beauty par- lours, spas will remain open in Green and Orange zones while restaurants will be allowed to operate their kitchens for home deliveries. All the commercial establishments and shops will be allowed to remain open from 7 AM to 4 PM daily. While the secretariat will remain open from 9:30 AM to 4 PM, all government and pri- vate offices will be open from 10 AM to 4 PM. Social dis- tancing, sanitisation and other directions will have to be fol- lowed effectively in all the offices. Since all shops and com- mercial establishments (except those prohibited) will be allowed to open on all days in Green and Orange zones, the state has decided to implement the odd-even formula for pri- vate four-wheelers in the cities with municipal corporations- Dehradun, Haridwar, Roorkee,Haldwani, Rudrapur, Kashipur and Kotdwar. This formula will be applied on the basis of the license plate num- ber and the date. This restric- tion will not be applicable on government vehicles, goods carriers, vehicles deployed for essential services and autho- rised vehicles with permission from other states. In addition to the driver, maximum three persons will be allowed in a pri- vate four-wheeler. All general movement and non-essential activities will remain prohibit- ed from 4 PM to 7 AM. The chief secretary further informed that about 2.25 lakh Uttarakhandis had registered for returning to Uttarakhand of which about 1.04 lakh had returned by Sunday. Similarly, more than 38,000 migrants in Uttarakhand had registered for returning to their home states with more than 22,000 of them having been sent so far. Further, out of 121 Uttarakhandis abroad who were interested in returning, 73 have returned to the nation and are currently under quarantine in different states while 50 are slated to return on May 19-20. Regarding migrants who have returned to their villages in the state, Singh requested their families and locals to cooper- ate. He also stressed that returning migrants must strict- ly observe the 14-day manda- tory home quarantine. If any- one is found violating the home quarantine, the admin- istration will initiate action under the Disaster Management Act. 1R 5HG ]RQH GLVWULFW LQ 8WWDUDNKDQG BC0C48BBD4B 6D834;8=4B 5A ;2:3F=8E 0RR^aSX]Vc^cWTR^_[PX]P]c cWT_^[XRTU^aRTUd[[hSaPVVTScWT ^cWTaP]SPd]cP]Sc^^ZcWT fXcWcWTbT[eTb 0a^d]S !)PcWT^cWTa ^UcWTR^_[PX]P]caTcda]TSQdc WTaPd]cWPb]^cR^TQPRZ bX]RT 8UcWT82A bdVVTbcbb^ aP_XScTbcX]V^U aTcda]X]V XVaP]cbfX[[QT bcPacTSPccWT BcPcT´bQ^aSTa cWT^UUXRXP[b X]U^aTScWT R^dac
- 4. ]PcX^]#347A03D=kCD4B30H k0H (!! 2E83 (DC1A40: ?=BQ =4F34;78 The Congress on Monday said the fiscal stimulus package announced by the Government is “hopelessly inadequate” given the gravity of the economic crisis as it amounts to only C1.86 lakh crore, which is 0.91 per cent of the GDP. The party sought a revised and comprehensive package of 10 per cent of the GDP. Senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the stimu- lus package has left several sec- tions like the poor, migrants, farmers, labourers, workers, small shopkeepers and middle class high and dry. In our view, a fiscal stim- ulus of C1,86,650 crore amounting to barely 0.91 per cent of GDP will be totally inadequate given the gravity of the economic crisis and the dire situation in which people find themselves, he said. Chidambaram said most analysts, rating agencies and banks have placed the size of the fiscal stimulus between 0.8 to 1.5 per cent. On Sunday, former Union Minister and Congress leader Anand Sharma accused the government of misleading peo- ple with its trickery, fakery, quackery and said the eco- nomic measures announced by the Centre amounted to only 1.6 per cent of India''s GDP, i.e. worth C3.22 lakh crore instead of C20 lakh crore as claimed by the prime min- ister. We express our thorough disappointment and request the government to reconsider the stimulus package and announce a revised and com- prehensive fiscal stimulus pack- age of not less than C10 lakh crore of real additional expen- diture equivalent to 10 per cent of GDP, Chidambaram said at a press conference through video-conferencing. He also accused the Government of being oppor- tunistic by pushing reforms. It is bypassing stakeholer con- sultation, legislation and dis- cussion in Parliament on the package and this will be strong- ly resisted and challenged in the House, he added. I think the Government is deliberately sidelining Parliament. A meeting of the Parliamentary Committee should at least be held to dis- cuss the fiscal stimulus pack- age, the Congress leader said. If there is a genuine reform that takes economy forward, we will support it but we will have to read the fine print, he said. The Government is being opportunistic. They are just announcing what one person or one group of persons think is right without thinking through the consequences. Editorials and articles today point out downside of some of the announcements, Chidambaram noted. You can''t fool all the peo- ple all the time. This fiscal stim- ulus package is inadequate, he said. The former finance min- ister said we note with deep regret that the fiscal stimulus package has left several sec- tions high and dry, including the bottom half of the popula- tion (13 crore families), migrant workers, farmers, landless agricultural labour, daily-wage non-agricultural labour, workers who have been laid off or retrenched and those in unorganised or unreg- istered businesses or units who have lost their jobs. He said the self-employed, who have no work, seven crore shopkeepers, lower middle class families, who have run out of cash and are forced to borrow, and the 5.8 crore MSMEs have also been left out in the package. He said the Congress has analysed the contents of the five tranches and in its con- sidered opinion except for 1.86 lakh crore of additional expen- diture, the rest of the announcements are included already in budget expendi- ture, front loading of some budgeted expenditure, regula- tory measures, a number of liq- uidity measures, medium to long term plans or schemes and proposed reforms. Chidambaram said there can be no fiscal stimulus to the economy without additional expenditure over and above the budgeted expenditure and this has been acknowledged by the finance minister. Thus the true value of fis- cal stimulus package will be known when we know what is the additional borrowing in 2020-21, he said. The truth cannot be hid- den for long. To a question on fear of rating agencies down- grading India, the former finance minister said he does not think rating agencies run the country. Every country in the world is in distress, practical- ly every country in Europe is facing a recession. If rating agencies downgrade us, they will have to downgrade every European country too. This is an unnecessary fear. We will have to face that situation. As long as our for- eign exchange reserves are high, inflation is under control, we are on the right path, demand grows and GDP picks up, why would a rating agency downgrade us, he asked? Chidambaram also noted that it is not the time to worry about fiscal deficit and if addi- tional expenditure turns out to be another C10 lakh crore and additional borrowing is Rs 10 lakh crore. Obviously fiscal deficit will go up but that should not be a matter of worry, he added. 4`_X+7ZdTR]aRTRXV Y`aV]Vdd]jZ_RUVbfReV ?=BQ =4F34;78 Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Monday underlined the need to adopt new ways of living in corona times and suggested a 12-point frame- work for this new normal to deal with the virus by learning form the lessons so far taught by the pandemic. He stressed on the need for new attitudes towards life and humanity amidst indications of the virus likely to stay for longer than earlier expected. “Live differently and live safe,” he put forth his mantra in a lengthy Facebook post hours after the announcement of lock- down 4.0 with restrictions sub- stantially relaxed. He dealt with the philo- sophical and moral issues thrown by the COVID-19 con- tagion saying life can’t be lived in isolation and the virus out- break highlighted the inter- connectedness of lives. He said, “What affects one person any- where affects everyone every- where, be it the disease or econ- omy.” Giving an account of the nature of life ‘Before Corona’, Naidu stated that man emerged alonerinhisquestforhappiness and material advancement reducing the family and the society to being mere adjuncts andhisconfidenceborderingon arrogance made him believe that he can live alone and all by himself, unmindful of the lives of others. “Stacked with better tools to fight the epidemics than when the pestilence struck humanity earlier and empowered with gene editing, Artificial Intelligence, big data etc, man was seeking to play God,” he stated. On the life ‘After Corona’, Naidu noted that it has shaken the fundamentals of living by oneself and highlighted the need for living in harmony with nature and fellow humans. “The invisible microbe once again proved thatlife can change very quickly. It brought into full play the uncertainty that can co- sail with life,” he pointed out. “Uncertainty continues to haunt the people. Uncertainty is the known source of anxiety which can lead to psychological issues,” he said even as he sug- gested adopting a new normal of life by staying calm and con- fident. Naidu stressed that the corona challenge is more a civ- ilizationalissuethanthatofindi- vidual lives and new norms and ethos of living should be evolved to save the present civilization. Noting thatlife can’t belived for long in confinement, he wel- comed the new relaxations for lockdown 4.0 even as he recalled how people living with HIV virus had no vaccine for long time and had to change habits. Similarly, Naidu urged the peo- ple to learn to cope with coro- na virus by changing the habits and attitudes towards life and fellow humans. He suggested a 12-point new normal of living during corona times that includes among others living in harmony with the nature and fellow beings; knowing that safety and security of lives are interconnected, rationally analysing the impact of every movement or action on the spread of virus, not responding impulsively to the situation, strictly adherence to the behavioral changes ushered in so far like wearing mask, main- taining physical distance and ensuring hygiene besides preventing stigmatisation and replacing the sense of collective helplessness by the spirit of the virtue of living interconnected with shared destiny. ?=BQ =4F34;78 The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) is going to get a big push after Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s direc- tion to buy only swadeshi products in all canteens of central paramilitary forces. This decision will also impact the production and sales of KVIC which will be fulfilling the majority of supplies at these stores, apart from lot of job opportunities to people across the country, said Vinai Kumar Saxena, Chairman, KVIC. “India has taken the first big step towards becoming Aatmanirbhar (self-reliant). Immediately after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for encouraging local products, the Home Minister Amit Shah has taken a lead and has made it mandatory for all canteens and stores of paramilitary forces to sell only “Swadeshi” products through Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC). The move will open great employment opportuni- ties for farmers, unemployed youths and lakhs of people already engaged with cottage and village industries,” said KVIC in a statement. Saxena lauded the decision of the Home Minister saying this would provide a big boost to the cottage and village industries sector apart from the MSMEs units. “This decision will directly benefit lakhs of people engaged with manu- facturing of various village industries products. With this order over 10 lakh personnel of the various paramilitary forces will be added to KVIC’s con- sumer base. As a goodwill gesture, the KVIC has also immediately decided to supply products to the CAPF canteens at a small margin of 3% only as against the 20% margin in other cases,” Saxena said. Notably, there are 20 mas- ter bhandars of these forces across the country with annu- al turnover of over C1,800 crore. The KVIC is likely to get major share of the total turnover. At present, KVIC has registered 17 products for the supply to CAPF canteens. These include Khadi National Flag, eatables like honey, pick- les, edible oils, agarbatti, papad, amla products and cotton tow- els etc Further, a list of 63 new products like Khadi clothes, woolens, cosmetics like herbal oils, shampoo, soaps, face wash, tea and coffee and oth- ers has been submitted to the CAPF canteens by KVIC to be included in supply list at these stores. 20?5bfPSTbWX^][hbP[T c^PXS:WPSXR^XbbX^] ?=BQ =4F34;78 Country's liquor manufac- turers have welcomed the Indian Army’s decision to pur- chaseonlyIndia-madeproducts in the Canteen Stores including Indian alcoholic beverages. In a letter to the head of Canteen Stores Department (CSD), the Confederation of Indian Alcoholic Beverage Companies (CIABC), the apex bodyoftheIndianalcoholicbev- erage industry, stated: “Armed Forceshavebeenamongthefirst to respond to the Prime Minister’sappealtogolocaland have decided to purchase only India-madeproductsinCanteen Stores. We compliment Armed Forces for this step as this will help India create world class products,sovitalforittobecome a global economic force. CIABC Director General Vinod Giri said that Indian alcoholic beverage industry is coming of age with internation- ally acclaimed single malt whiskies like Amrut, Paul John, Rampur etc. “However, these brands need support and encouragement from the Government to become global household names. Hence, a decision by CSD, the largest purchaser of alcoholic products in India, to sell only Indian- made products is truly a water- shed moment for the Indian industry. This will give them scale to compete globally, and spur them to innovate and pro- duce even better products,” he added. ;X`d^aP]dUPRcdaTabWPX[0ah´b STRXbX^]c^_daRWPbT^][h8]SXP PST_a^SdRcbX]RP]cTT]bc^aTb ?=BQ =4F34;78 HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' on Monday released the revised datesheet for the pending CBSE exams for both classes 10 and 12, which will now be held from July 1-15 with strict distancing norms in place. The exams were post- poned due to the nationwide lockdown imposed on March 25 to con- tain the spread of COVID-19. While class 12 exams will be conducted across the country, the class 10 exams are only pending in North East Delhi, where they could not be held due to the law and order situation in the wake of protests against the amended citizenship act. The schedule has been decided in order to ensure that the board exams are completed before competitive examinations such as engineering entrance JEE-Mains, which is sched- uled from July 18-23, and medical entrance exam NEET, which is scheduled on July 26. The class 10 exams will be staggered on four dates, starting July 1. The first paper will be of Social Sciences, while the next day students will be required to appear in Science exam, CBSE Controller of Examination Sanyam Bhardwaj said. On July 10, exams will be conducted for both courses of Hindi, and on July 15 for both courses of English, he said. On health guidelines for students, Bhardwaj said, they will be required to carry own sanitiser bottles and wear mask to their examination centres. Parents will have to ensure their ward is not sick and candidates will have to strictly follow physical-dis- tancing norms, he said. The class 12 date sheet has two sections - one for exams in Northeast Delhi and the other for exams across the country. In North East Delhi, Physics exam will be held on July 3, Accountancy (July 4), Chemistry (July 6), English (July 8) and Political Science (July 14). On July 15, four class 12 exams have been scheduled in North East Delhi -- Mathematics, Economics, History and Biology. For class 12 exams across the country, the Home Science exam will be held on July 1, followed by both courses of Hindi the next day. The class 12 Business Studies exam has been scheduled for July 9 followed by Biotechnology on July 10, and Geography on July 11. Sociology exam will be held on July 13. The board was not able to conduct class 10 and 12 exams on eight examination days due to the coronavirus outbreak. The board had last month announced that it will only conduct pending exams in 29 subjects which are crucial for promotion and admission to higher educational institutions. 21B42[Pbb ! TgPbc^QTWT[S Ua^9d[h $ BcdST]cbc^RPaah bP]XcXbTaQ^cc[Tb fTPaPbZb =PXSdbdVVTbcTSP !_^X]c]Tf]^aP[ ^U[XeX]VSdaX]V R^a^]PcXTb E?SfT[[b^]]Tf fPh^U[XUTSdaX]V R^a^]P_P]STXR ?=BQ =4F34;78 Apart of Krishi Bhawan building in Central Delhi has been sealed after an official in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying tested positive for COVID-19. The official works as a personal secretary in the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying. The entire office premis- es will be thoroughly sanitised as per extant guidelines in this regard on May 19 and May 20, apart from the daily sanitisation that takes place, according to an official memorandum. The officers have been asked to work from home for the next two days. The office will reopen on May 21, it said. All those who had come in direct contact with the COVID-19 patient have been advised to get themselves home quarantined and to also get themselves tested after five days. They will be allowed to attend office only after being tested negative for COVID-19, it added. The remaining staff will be called from May 21 on rotation as per the instructions of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Besides the Fishery, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Ministry, Krishi Bhawan also houses several other ministries including agri- culture, food and consumer affairs, rural development and panchayati raj. ?Pac^U:aXbWX1WPfP]bTP[TS PUcTa^UUXRXP[cTbcbR^a^]PeT 0A270=09HC8Q =4F34;78 Why the Novel Coronavirus is more fatal to men than women? Is there any link between prostrate cancer in men and Covid-19? Is a protein receptor abnor- mally grown in prostrate can- cer patients is being used by the virus to enter the lungs and attack lung tissue of men? These are some of the per- tinent questions that a team of researchers from University California Los Angles Health Sciences is exploring to help improve better clinical out- comes for men afflicted with Coronavirus. In the UCLA-led clinical trial, researchers will suppress male hormones using the FDA-approved medication known as degarelix, to tem- porarily shut down the pro- duction of TMPRSS2 and block the virus from entering lung tissue. The decision came after researchers noted that the pro- tein receptor called TMPRSS2 which is abnormal in about half of all prostate cancer patients plays a role in the development and progression of prostate cancer. The UCLA researchers believe that the virus uses this same receptor to enter the lungs and attack lung tissue. The receptor is regulated by male hormones in prostate cancer, and researchers believe it may also be regulated in lung tissue by male hormones. The phase 2 trial will assess if temporarily suppressing male hormones will reduce the severity of COVID-19 illness by helping patients get out of the hospital faster, decrease the need for intubation and improve mortality. The UCLA-led study is being conducted at the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and other VA sites across the country. It's becoming pretty clear that men are more likely than women to die from COVID-19 and we think there is a con- nection between prostate can- cer research and our under- standing of COVID-19 research, said principal inves- tigator Matthew Rettig, pro- fessor of medicine and urolo- gy at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. It's kind of like a lock and key, explained Rettig, who is also the chief of hematol- ogy/oncology at the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. If the virus was the key and its receptor is the lock, then the virus inserts into the lock and can gain entry into the lung while the male hor- mones makes that lock more accessible to the virus. By sup- pressing the male hormones, it's kind of like putting a piece of masking tape over the lock so that the key won't fit in. We're hoping this (the research) will not only help men with COVID-19 get out of the hospital faster, but ulti- mately, see less men dying from the virus, said Rettig. Recent data from New York City, the epicenter of infections in the United States, show that men are not only infected in greater numbers, but they are also dying at nearly twice the rate of women. FWh2^eXSXb^aTUPcP[c^T] cWP]f^T].ATbTPaRWQTVX]b ?=BQ =4F34;78 Veterans of 1972 batch of Group A CRPF Cadre offi- cers have written to Home Minister Amit Shah seeking action against IPS officer and Inspector General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Vijay Kumar for making casual comments about CRPF's role in the Valley. During a recent review meeting held by Jammu and Kashmir Police Director General, Kumar had said that CRPF is not working well in the Union Territory. At the meeting for review of the local police, armed forces and CAPFs collaborating in anti-terror operations in JK on April 29, Kumar had allegedly said “CRPF is not working well.” “Here (In JK), JKP gen- erates intelligence, Army/Rashtriya Rifles carry out the operations and CRPF’s name is inserted just like that...This I know, I have been in CRPF,” the letter quotes Kumar to have asserted during the meeting. “This statement is not only contrary to the facts, but also belies the valorous sacrifices made by the Force, a consis- tent track record of excep- tional performance, and lau- rels earned by the Force in the most difficult anti-terror oper- ations in Jammu and Kashmir. 76 gallantry medals given at the Republic Day of 2020 are a testament to the sweat, blood and martyrdom of brave men and women of CRPF,” the vet- erans said stated to buttress the paramilitary’s role in anti-ter- ror operations in the Valley. The retired officials of CRPF who have put in 35-40 years of service further said, “Singular lack of leadership and maturity demonstrated by IGP Vijay Kumar, and his factually incorrect and hurtful comments, have caused con- sternation in the Force per- sonnel. Ignoring this incident to let it pass would be even more hurtful and memories of disrespect will never fade away.” “..a visible action from you would go a long way in restoring the morale and con- fidence of the Force, repair the damage caused by immature and disrespectful comments by Vijay Kumar, IGP Kashmir. It will also be a powerful reminder to all to work togeth- er as a cohesive, collaborative, respectful and unified team to wipe out the virus of terror- ism,” the group 35 veterans who are signatories to the let- ter asserted. 2A?5eTcTaP]bbTTZPRcX^]PVPX]bc9: 86? U^aRPbdP[R^T]c^]U^aRT³ba^[T ?C8Q =4F34;78 The Centre on Monday undertook in the Delhi High Court that it will follow its standard operating proce- dure (SOP), including giving priority to pregnant women, while repatriating Indian nationals stranded in Saudi Arabia since the COVID-19 outbreak. The undertaking was given before Justice Vibhu Bakhru by Additional Solicitor General Maninder Acharya and central govern- ment standing counsel Jasmeet Singh who appeared for the Ministry of Home Affairs. The high court noted the undertaking and bound the government to the statement made by it. The order came while disposing of a PIL by the United Nurses Association seeking directions to the Centre to bring back 56 pregnant nurses stranded in Saudi Arabia due to the coronavirus- induced lockdown. With regard to the associ- ation's plea for bringing back the pregnant nurses by via special chartered flights, the high court said it was not giv- ing any such direction as steps have been The high court said, It is expected that the Government would take all necessary steps, within the limitation of the resources available, to operate flights to bring back Indian citizens who are stranded overseas. It also observed that it is necessary to ensure within the category of persons who are to be accorded priority, a higher priority be accorded to persons who are in medical distress vis- à-vis persons who are other- wise hale and hearty but are stranded due to the expiry of their visa or other reasons. The United Nurses Association, represented by advocate Subhash Chandran, had also sought a direction to the MHA to strictly follow its SOP which states that pri- ority has to be given to people with medical emergencies, including pregnant women. The association claimed that many of the pregnant nurses are in their third trimester and therefore, require medical and psycho-socio sup- port. The petition had also claimed that these women are staying alone in Saudi Arabia as family status visa was not pro- vided to staff nurses like them. The association had sought a direction to the Centre to bring back the stranded preg- nant nurses in the second phase of 'Vande Bharat Mission' between May 19 and May 23. CWT7XVW2^dac]^cTS cWTd]STacPZX]VP]S Q^d]ScWT 6^eTa]T]cc^cWT bcPcTT]cPSTQh XcCWT^aSTaRPT fWX[TSXb_^bX]V^UP ?8;QhcWTD]XcTS =dabTb0bb^RXPcX^] bTTZX]VSXaTRcX^]bc^ cWT2T]caTc^QaX]V QPRZ$%_aTV]P]c ]dabTbbcaP]STSX] BPdSX0aPQXPSdTc^ cWTR^a^]PeXadb X]SdRTS[^RZS^f] AT_PcaXPcX^]^U_aTV]P]cf^T]UXabc _aX^aXch)2T]caT´bd]STacPZX]VX]72