Review Procedure for Plaints to RS Ethics Panel, Says Naidu
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XXIV, NO. 324, PAGES 8, RS. 2 YOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER Why are they Thousands attend India close to Dhanoa criticises standing with rioters, anti-CAA protest in concluding trade politicisation Adityanath says after Hyderabad package with US: of defence Priyanka visits Shringla purchase families agreements PAGE 8PAGE 8 PAGE 8 PAGE 8 PM reviews ministries’ Activist Jafar, Darapuri, 16 work, 3rd time in 2 weeks others get bail LUCKNOW: Additional District Judge (ADJ) Sanjay Shankar AGENCY happens under eight groups comprising capital of TB, accounting for one-fourth of “Our five-year focus will be on tuber- Pandey on Saturday granted bail NEW DELHI, JANUARY 4 various ministries. the new cases annually, and nearly the culosis since the PM has committed to to social activist Sadaf Jafar, re- Sources said the aim of the review was same number of deaths. achieving the TB-free India by 2025, tired IPS officer SR Darapuri and The Prime Minister-led Council of Minis- to determine gap areas and push for quick Recently, the government had intro- rather than the WHO target of 2030. The 16 others after the police failed to ters on Friday and Saturday held a review solutions for faster delivery of projects. duced a new regime to address multi-drug elimination of TB is our top goal. The fo- produce direct evidence of their meeting of various ministries, the third The review would also aid the country’s resistant tuberculosis to contain deaths cus is also on preventive and promotive involvement in the December 19 one in two weeks, to list priority areas for movement towards the sustainable devel- from this severe form of infection. health and consolidation of old projects, violence and arson during the future and track progress of the ongoing opment goal set by the UN. A major new Another major focus area in health is a especially Ayushman Bharat,” a top anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests. projects. At the meeting, Union secretaries element in the review was the PM’s direc- move towards a food free of high-salt, Health Ministry source said. On Friday, the court had reserved gave presentations on the five-year vision tion to all ministries to submit a five-year high-sugar products for which the apex The ischaemic heart disease is the order on their bail petitions. related to their respective ministries. vision document, detailing policy and food regulator has already put out a draft leading cause of death in India, closely fol- Granting them bail on Saturday The aim of the review was to deter- plan. The PM personally saw all presenta- notification for public comments. lowed by chronic obstructive pulmonary evening, the court directed them mine gap areas and push for quick solu- tions on the vision document. The Food Safety and Standards Au- diseases and strokes. to submit sureties of Rs 50,000 tions for faster delivery of projects The government’s focus sectors are thority of India’s notification is the first of The latest World Health Statistics Re- each. Hearing the case after the The government’s focus sectors are economy, water conservation and health its kind and proposes to ban sale of high- port said the ischaemic heart disease was winter vacation, the ADJ had on economy, water conservation and health delivery. salt, high-sugar products in schools and in responsible for 12,15,000 deaths in India, Friday pulled up the government delivery In its five-year vision document, the 50-m periphery. Meanwhile, the ministry constituting 12.4 per cent of all deaths in counsel as he was not able to Held for the first time in the new year, ister Narendra Modi and attended by all Health Ministry has promised to push ma- has also launched a ‘Eat right movement’ the country. This was followed by chronic prove the legitimacy of slapping the two-day inter-sectoral ministerial pre- ministers. It was an extension of the PM’s jor outreach programmes to eliminate tu- to tackle the growing non-communicable obstructive pulmonary disease, which led Section 307, IPC, against the pe- sentations were supervised by Prime Min- regular project update mechanism that berculosis. Notably, India is the global disease burden in the country. to 10.8 per cent (10,61,000) of all deaths. titioners. Infant deaths: Sachin Pilot 20K Ayushman cards slams own govt Review procedure for plaints JAIPUR: Rajasthan Deputy nullified in Gujarat Chief Minister Sachin Pilot on AHMEDABAD: Around 20,000 Ayushman cards issued under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Saturday rapped his own govt, Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) were nullified in Gujarat as ineligible beneficiaries were found to demanding that accountability have been added on these cards, a senior official said on Saturday. should be fixed on “someone” for The scheme provides Rs 5 lakh health insurance cover per family annually for secondary the Kota JK Lon hospital tragedy and tertiary care hospitalisation. Under the scheme, meant for the poor and vulnerable in which infant death toll had sections of society, there is no cap on the number of family members that can be added reached 107 since December 1. to RS ethics panel, says Naidu as beneficiaries. He said it was heart-wrenching A team of the Gujarat Health Department and National Health Agency found several cas- meeting bereaved mothers. Pilot es where ineligible persons, who were not members of the respective family, were shown said when 107 infants had died in AGENCY sides two Independent members were not tak- as beneficiaries on the card, said Jayanti Ravi, principal secretary, health. Several FIRs over a month, there should be ei- NEW DELHI, JANUARY 4 en up for preliminary examination by the were registered and arrests were made in connection with fraudulent cards, she said. ther the local administration, committee as they were not directly addressed state government, medical de- Concerned over inability of the Rajya Sabha to the authorities mentioned under the rele- partment or anyone who should Ethics Committee to take up complaints vant rule. be held “responsible and ac- against its members due to procedural issue, Naidu also directed the Rajya Sabha sec- countable” for this tragedy, which Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has asked the retariat to promote awareness among the pub- should now stop at any cost. panel to re-examine the current rules about lic about the procedures and functioning of the Imran tweets on “Itne sare bacchon ki maut hui admission of grievances. ethics committee, which oversees the conduct hai. Jimmedari tay karni hogi. Va- Following a review of functioning of the of the members and examines complaints of sundra ji ne kuch galat kiya to ethics committee, it came to notice that during unethical conduct. janta ne unhain hara diya. Magar Indian police again ab toh hamari jimmedari banti the past four years, 22 complaints against 19 The ethics committee, the first of its kind hai,” he said. House members were returned without exam- for legislatures in the country, was set up in NEW DELHI, JANUARY 4 ination since these were not made in accor- 1997 to oversee the moral and ethical conduct CAT results dance to the prescribed procedure. of the members as a self-regulatory mecha- A day after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was trolled for posting a fake Under the ‘Rules of Procedure and Con- nism. This followed after the NN Vohra Com- video of violence in Bangladesh and blaming Indian police for action against announced,10 duct of Business in the Council of States’, any mittee report on declining standards in public Muslims in UP, he was again criticised today for tweeting a news story on a person can make a complaint of unethical life was discussed by Parliament. dead man accused of violence in India. Twitterati trolled Khan and also con- score 100 conduct against a member of the House in fer any question involving unethical conduct Since then the committee formulated a demned the stone pelting at the Nankana Sahib gurdwara. Khan posted a pic- writing either to the ethics committee or an of- and other misconduct of a member to the com- 14-point code of conduct for its members, ture of a burning vehicle as Indian security forces stand guard amid violence percentile ficer authorised by the committee. The com- mittee for examination, investigation and re- made it mandatory to declare five pecuniary over the CAA and wrote, “Indian police brutality reaches new lows as its NEW DELHI: Ten candidates mittee can also take up such matters suo motu port. interests and imposition of one or more sanc- pogrom of Muslims in India continues as part of fascist Modi government’s scored 100 percentile in the or may take up the complaints for preliminary The complaints against 19 members of tions like censure, reprimand, and suspension ethnic cleansing agenda.” The accompanying news said “Man dead for 6 Common Admission Test (CAT), inquiry, if it is made in proper form. Rajya Sabha belonging to major parties from from the House of a period specified by the years, bedridden 93-yr-old in UP cops’list of people who could hamper peace results of which were an- Under another rule, the Chairman may re- both the ruling and opposition benches be- committee. amid CAA stir”. nounced on Saturday. All 10 candidates are from technologi- cal and engineering back- grounds, officials said, adding six of them are from IITs and two from NITs. Trade unions to Cold wave conditions to Uddhav calls for meeting go ahead with Jan 8 strike intensify in Punjab, Haryana, NEW DELHI: Unimpressed by with disgruntled minister the Centre’s placatory outreach, 10 non-BJP trade unions today MUMBAI, JANUARY 4 tion.