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./)0/1 While the MLAs went to “The country is ruled in the Hotel Fairmount where accordance with the law and n ugly political drama they have been camping for last constitution. Governments are Aunfolded in Jaipur on several days, the CM headed to formed and run based on peo- ! " #$ ""% Friday when Congress MLAs his residence, where he held a ple’s mandate. BJP’s conspira- in the Ashok Gehlot camp sat meeting of his Cabinet meeting cy to topple the Rajasthan on a five-hour dharna at the Raj to pass a proposal to hold an Government is clear. This is an 23'4 of the writ petition. Till then, Bhawan, insisting they will emergency session of the insult to 8 crore people of the ‘status quo’, as exists today stay put till the Governor sum- Assembly. Rajasthan. The Governor must he Rajasthan High Court viz-a-viz impugned notices mons a session of the State Later, The Governor sec- call Assembly session so that Ton Friday ordered main- dated 14.07.2020, shall be Assembly. retariat said the Governor had the truth comes before the taining status quo on disqual- maintained,” the order stated. They ended their protest consulted legal experts on the country,” he said. ification notice issued by the “The writ petition has been after 9 pm after assurance that paper presented by the State The MLAs, led by Gehlot, State Assembly Speaker to 19 admitted and the court has the Governor will convene a Government on the night of arrived at Raj Bhawan in four dissident Congress MLAs, ordered for status quo on the session of the State Assembly as July 23, to convene the session buses from a hotel on the city including Sachin Pilot. notices dated July 14. The mat- recommended by the State of the Assembly at very short outskirts around 4pm where The bench, in its order, said ter will be heard in due course Cabinet. But after the MLAs notice. they have been camping for the the writ petition is maintain- now,” a counsel for the Speaker ended the dharna, the “There is no justification past few days. Before heading able and is admitted on the said. Governor wrote to Gehlot provided for holding of the ses- for the Raj Bhawan, Gehlot said ! # ground of three pleas of the The Speaker issued the about his “gherao” threat and sion at short notice nor any he had requested the Governor $% petitioners. notice to the MLAs on July 14 the Governor Secretariat stat- agenda has been proposed for on Thursday night to call a ses- “After completion of filing after the Congress complained ing that there is no justification the same. 21-day notice is sion of the Assembly on of pleadings of the parties and to him that the MLAs had provided for holding of the required for the session to be Monday, but the Governor had the intervenors, Counsel for the defied a whip to attend two leg- Session at short notice. called according to normal not heeded his request. . $ parties shall be at liberty to file islature party meetings. In his brief letter to the procedures,” said Rajasthan Gehlot said the Governor an application for early hearing Continued on Page 11 Chief Minister, the Governor Governor’s Secretariat. is the constitutional head and said even before he could dis- It went on to say that the he could not have stopped the cuss the matter with experts State Government should Assembly session from taking %&R regarding Assembly session, ensure freedom and free move- place “without some pressure you (Gehlot) publically said ment of all the MLAs. There from the top”. !"# that if Raj Bhawan is was no mention of the MLAs “Why did he not decide on ./)0/1 The Congress also including Sachin Pilot. Sibal “gheraoed” then it is not your kept at Manesar in Haryana by Thursday? We’ve requested slammed Rajasthan Governor said the Rajasthan High Court Jaipur: For the first time since responsibility. Sachin Pilot. It also pointed out him again to make a decision he Congress on Friday Kalraj Mishra for not calling an passes status quo orders against Rajasthan plunged into a polit- “If you & your Home that the Cabinet note didn’t soon. People are waiting,” Tlaunched an unprecedent- Assembly session by accusing the Constitution bench judg- Jaipur: The Rajasthan BJP on ical crisis almost fortnight ago, Ministry can’t protect Guv then mention any specific date for Gehlot said, adding, “I am ed attack on judiciary for him of abdicating his consti- ment of the Supreme Court on Friday demanded the Centre to the state BJP has said rebel what about law & order in the convening the Assembly. sure that the Governor will not allegedly tying the hand of the tutional obligation and acting the power of the Assembly deploy the CRPF to maintain Congress leader Sachin Pilot State? What agency should be Senior Congress leader come under any pressure, he Rajasthan Assembly Speaker at the behest of the Central Speaker. law and order, reacting sharply could be the Chief Minister if contacted for Governor’s secu- Rahul Gandhi said the will make a decision. We hope for acting against the rebel Government. He also said may be to Congress MLAs staging a the situation allowed. Backing rity? I’ve never heard such Rajasthan Governor must call the Assembly session begins MLAs with senior party leader The party questioned the lawyers should take their robes “dharna” at Raj Bhawan. Pilot, BJP State president Satish statement from any CM. Is this an Assembly session to let the soon. So we are sitting here in and noted lawyer Kapil Sibal Rajasthan High Court’s order off since High Courts are no Incidentally, on December 4, Poonia, said, “If the situation not the beginning of a wrong Congress Government prove its protest. After he gives us a let- going to the extent of saying maintaining status quo on the longer bound by even the 1993, BJP MLAs had sat on allows, Sachin Pilot can become trend where MLAs protest at majority. He alleged that the ter we will decide the further what was the point in arguing disqualification notice issued Constitution bench judgments dharna on the lawns of the Raj the Chief Minister. In fact, he Raj Bhawan?,” the Governor BJP’s conspiracy to topple the course of action.” before the court if precedents by the State Assembly Speaker of the Supreme Court. Bhawan. Baliram Bhagat of has taken a big step with this wrote. Gehlot Government was clear. Continued on Page 11 are brazenly ignored. to 19 dissident Congress MLAs, Continued on Page 11 Congress was Governor. goal in mind.” ")* " ( )*+ , - & + ( $ # " ' # 34 ./)0/1 followed by Tamil Nadu with nine States with high active Maharashtra reported 9615 1,99,749 and Delhi with caseload and advised fresh cases and 278 deaths in the # ndia on Friday saw yet anoth- 1,28,389 cases. Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, last 24 hours, taking the total Ier massive spike in coron- The number of coronavirus Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, number of cases to 3,57,117 ./)0/1 avirus cases taking the total well cases in India have doubled in Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West including 1,99,967 recovered past 13 lakh mark. In the past nearly three weeks since July 2 Bengal and Assam to urgently patients and 13,132 deaths. hose suffering with mild- LO four days alone, the country has when the country crossed the ramp up testing, strictly Currently, there are 1,44,018 Tto-moderate Covid-19 added over 1.82 lakh cases. The six lakh-mark. The country’s implement containment plan, active cases in the State. symptoms can now look for- " country also overtook France Covid tally touched the 10 augment health infrastructure Continued on Page 11 ward to a comparatively cheap- M on Friday as the number of lakh-mark last Friday. Since and ensure effective clinical er drug with the country’s top deaths linked to virus crossed then, around three lakh new management. 1! 12! 13 drug regulator approving 30,961. The number of deaths infections have been reported. 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The medicine will be available ! !)* *&$&'$+,, 3 <; <5< 8,,,8 8,5 New Delhi: The strain of the South Wales in Australia, Emerging favourable glob- in strips of 10 tablets and novel coronavirus in a major- noted that viral droplets are al clinical evidence suggests, boxes of 50 tablets, which is a + % &*$-+. ' 3 9; --6 6 ,:<,- -67 ity of cases in India is the pre- generated by those infected Favipiravir is an effective treat- rational pack for the treat- ) + 5, 8-, 6 78;,, 578 dominant “subtype” found in with the novel coronavirus ment option in the manage- ment. It has a shelf life of 90 ,- (> 5, 9,6 7 7<7,< 8,6 other parts of the globe, a uni- when they cough, sneeze, or ment of mild-to-moderate days. formity that bodes well for the speak. Covid-19, it added. Favipiravir Continued on Page 11 /$0+$+-/ 57 :99 :55:; ,,: efficacy of a vaccine or drug -$00$*-/ 4 > ,: 6-< 9;77: 5:- developed anywhere in the + ,, 566 77677 <,7 world, says a top scientist. Centre for Cellular and % " . 78 877 -97; -;; Molecular Biology Director 78 -55 ,<777 85, Rakesh Mishra added that & 3 79 76; -866- <99 detailed gene mapping of the coronavirus also indicated that + 0 ? 77 98, 65,65 7;6 it is unlikely that it will mutate = 69 889 55 - 597 into a more dangerous strain. $ " , / # ./)0/1 $## Border Affairs (WMCC) came against the backdrop of China espite Covid-19 pandem- # "" dilly-dallying in withdrawing $ . Dic, Prime Minister its more than 40,000 troops Narendra Modi will address the # from the front and depth areas. nation from Red Fort on Incidentally, the two Corps #Q R Independence Day with Army- $ " Commanders in their last 1'$=.?) ing with the seers and the dis- police parade, guard of honour distancing, wearing masks and round of talks on July 14 had trict officials. and 21 gun salute functions avoiding large crowd gathering ./)0/1 agreed to thin out additional Uttar Pradesh Chief The chief minister would 1'$=.?) through video conferencing with social distancing norms on Independence Day cele- troops as soon as possible as a Minister Yogi Adityanath will also meet the Shri Ram from New Delhi before the spe- without large people gathering. brations across the country in otwithstanding the pre- major confidence-building visit Ayodhya on Saturday to Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra ormer Deputy Prime cial CBI court. The Union Home Ministry the wake of Covid-19. Nvailing stalemate at the measure. review the arrangements for the trust members and finalise the FMinister Lal Krishna Advani during his around on Friday in an advisory clar- “The Ceremony at Red volatile Line of Actual Control Giving details of the diplo- bhoomi pujan for construction list of the invitees for the bhoo- Advani recorded his statement 4-hour-long cross examina- ified that all functions in rela- Fort consisting of the presen- (LAC) in Ladakh, India and matic level talks on Friday, the of Ram temple at the Ram mi pujan.. before a special CBI court in tion by the prosecution denied tion to Independence Day cel- tation of a Guard of Honour by China on Friday reiterated Ministry of External Affairs Janmabhoomi premises by “There is a list of 228 peo- the Babri mosque demolition all the charges made against ebrations will be conducted the Armed Forces and the their commitment to continue said the Indian delegation was Prime Minister Narendra Modi ple but as per the Covid pro- case and refuted all charges of him on the conspiracy to across the country, including Delhi Police to the Prime dialogue to defuse tension. led by joint secretary (East on August 5. tocol, only 200 people can be conspiracy to demolish as polit- demolish the Babri mosque Chief Ministers’ address from Minister, unfurling of the They also agreed that Corps Asia) while the Director Official sources here said invited to attend the function. ically motivated. structure. the State Capitals, Ministers national flag accompanied by Commanders of the two General of the Boundary & on Friday that the chief minis- The list will be discussed with “My name was unneces- While the special Judge from district HQs and pan- the playing of the National Armies will meet soon to Oceanic Department of the ter would go to Ayodhya on the chief minister,” a senior sarily dragged in this case. asked 1,050 questions already chayat-level celebrations with Anthem and firing of 21-gun ensure disengagement and de- Chinese Ministry of Foreign Saturday afternoon and take member of the Trust said. The investigation was con- framed for the purpose, Advani usual Army-police parades and salute, speech by the Prime escalation expeditiously. These Affairs led the Chinese dele- stock of the preparation for the Meanwhile, there was good ducted under political pressure answered them very cautious- Guard of Honours and At- Minister, singing of the talks on the LAC may take gation. bhoomi pujan. news for the Trust as Allahabad and the chargesheet was for- ly. He denied every allegation Home functions in Rashtrapati National Anthem immediate- place next week. They agreed that early and During his stay, the chief High Court has rejected a peti- warded on the basis of fabri- of conspiracy and pressed that Bhavan and Raj Bhavans. ly after the PM’s speech, and These affirmations in the complete disengagement of the minister would have darshan of tion challenging the holding of cated evidence,” Advani told there was no occasion to make In a detailed five-page release of tri-coloured balloons 17th meeting of the Working troops along the LAC and de- Ram Lalla and got to Hanuman the bhoomi pujan for laying the the special CBI judge SK Yadav him stand on trial. advisory, Union Home at the end,” said the advisory. Mechanism for Consultation & escalation from LAC. Garhi temples and hold a meet- Continued on Page 11 when he recorded his statement Continued on Page 11 Ministry directed to keep social Continued on Page 11 Coordination on India-China Continued on Page 11 !" # #
% & "" # #0 1# 1'$=.?) 1'$=.?) an aid of Rs 5 lakh to Sanjit Yadav’s mother, who lost her aying stress on maximum erming the spurt in crime only son. LCOVID-19 testing, Chief Tas the sole achievement of Akhilesh demanded that Rs Minister Yogi Adityanath said the Bharatiya Janata Party 50 lakh aid be given to the vic- that the vision of one-step government, Samajwadi Party tim’s family by the state govern- ahead of coronavirus was president Akhilesh Yadav ment. necessary to defeat it therefore demanded imposition of an action plan should be pre- President’s rule in the state. pared to ramp up testing to “Blood-letting continues one lakh per day. unabated in Uttar Pradesh Presiding over the unlock and the Yogi Adityanath review meeting at his official government has singularly residence here on Friday, the failed to combat the rising tide chief minister said that at least of crime. This has created 2,000 tests by rapid antigen constitutional crisis in the method should be done state and the only remedy everyday in the districts with available is the imposition of population above 30 lakh and President’s rule in the state,” 1,000 in districts with lesser Akhilesh Yadav said here on population. Besides, he said, Friday. 35,000 tests per day should be containment zones. Secretary (Home and Yadav said that anti-social done by RT-PCR method. The chief minister said Information) Awanish Kumar elements, protected by the Directing officials to exer- that to control COVID-19 Awasthi, Additional Chief ruling party leaders, were cise special caution in the dis- and other communicable dis- Secretary (Finance) Sanjeev committing crime with tricts of Lucknow, Ghaziabad, eases, special cleanliness and Mittal, Additional Chief impunity and not a day passed Kanpur Nagar, Varanasi, sanitation drive was being Secretary to Chief Minister SP when heinous crimes like Gorakhpur, Prayagraj and undertaken every Saturday Goyal, Director General of murder, loot, kidnapping, Ballia, the chief minister asked and Sunday. He said sanitisa- Police HC Awasthi, Additional rapes were not reported them to conduct extensive tion, fogging and other clean- Chief Secretary (Medical from every part of the state, medical screening through liness works should be con- Education) Rajneesh Dubey, including state capital door-to-door survey. He also ducted with full dedication Additional Chief Secretary Lucknow. directed officials to complete during the drive on Saturday (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad, He reiterated that the dis- all the processes in time to and Sunday and the nodal Additional Chief Secretary missal of the Yogi Adityanath ensure availability of testing officers should monitor it. (Rural Development and government and President’s kits, medicines, ventilators As weekend closure has Panchayati Raj) Manoj Kumar rule had become necessary. and other necessary things in been announced on Saturdays Singh, Additional Chief The Samajwadi Party gave the state. and Sundays, people were Secretary (Agriculture) Devesh The chief minister advised to not venture out of Chaturvedi, Additional Chief stressed on effective medical their homes, he said. Secretary (MSME) Navneet screening by the surveillance The chief minister issued Sehgal, Principal Secretary teams. “The surveillance necessary directions to make (Animal Husbandry) Bhuvnesh teams should be kept active all arrangements to prevent Kumar, Principal Secretary to and their work should be spread of communicable dis- Chief Minister Sanjay Prasad, monitored properly. The sur- eases during the rainy season. Secretary to Chief Minister Shri vey activities should be taken He asked officials to ensure Alok Kumar, Relief up on mission mode with no relief material for the affect- Commissioner Sanjay Goyal, scope of laxity,” he said. ed population in flood-hit Director Information Shishir The chief minister said areas as well as medical facil- and other senior officers. that necessary steps be taken ities and green fodder for the by the district administration cattle. to convert private hospitals Those present in the into Covid hospitals. He meeting included the Chief stressed the need of timely Secretary RK Tiwari, completion of all the process- Infrastructure and Industrial es in this regard. He said the Development Commissioner services of NCC cadets and Alok Tandon, Agriculture Civil Defence personnel could Production Commissioner be taken for management of Alok Sinha, Additional Chief .4$
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1'$=.?) ivisional Commissioner 234 5 DMukesh Meshram said on Friday that 100 per cent contact tracing is essential to contain- ment the spread of coronavirus. Issuing directions to officials in a meeting, he said all the con- tacts of the active cases have to 1'$=.?) due to cardiopulmonary be tracked because they are arrest,” Dr Singh said. highly sensitive and of high-risk he spike continued as 297 Another victim was a 78- suspect cases. Tpersons tested positive for year-old man from “For effective control of the coronavirus in the city while Gorakhpur, who was admit- virus, primary contacts of all the seven patients succumbed ted on Friday itself. “He was suspect cases have to be tested across the district on Friday. having heart problems and because if any of them is left out, With the fresh cases, the tally had a pacemaker connected to he or she will spread it to oth- in Lucknow climbed to 3,389 his heart. He died due to car- ers and the chain of infection and the death toll to 72. The diopulmonary arrest and res- won’t be broken,” he said. He total number of persons dis- piratory failure,” Dr Singh said Lucknow lagged behind in charged across the district said. A 54-year-old man from contact tracing after some & ' # stands at 1,961. Alamnagar, who was admitted employees in the CMO office A senior official from the on July 22, also died on Friday. tested positive for coronavirus points and the DM said that those asymptomatic are advised patients. However, it is still CMO office said those who “He was suffering from hyper- recently. “It was the time when they can make use of nearby home quarantine while symp- debatable whether this should tested positive on Friday tension and diabetes. He also Lucknow also started getting schools. The DM said the move- tomatic patents hospitalised. It be given or not for treatment,” included 15 from Gomti had coronary artery disease increasing number of cases, ment plans should be made a will make check the spread of of he pointed out. Nagar, 14 from Alambagh, 11 and he died of respiratory fail- thus creating a backlog. day before teams step out for disease to an extent,” he said. He Meanwhile, president of from Aminabad, 10 from ure,” he said. However, the work is being surveillance and the presence of added that patients must also be Indian Medical Association Cantt; nine each from Naka, In the state, 2,712 per- carried out and we are hopeful ANMs and ASHA workers be attended to sincerely. (IMA), Lucknow Chapter, Hussainganj, Hazratganj & sons tested positive for coro- of making up for it by tonight ensured. “At least three teams “There have been issues Rama Srivastava said they had Kanpur road; seven each from navirus, including 189 in itself,” he added. He sternly have to be sent to each of the like patients not getting ambu- a meeting with the DM and the Gudamba, Ashiyana & Kanpur, 122 in Ghaziabad, said all the officials and staff containment zones,” he added. lances in time. My priority will CDO on the containment of Hasanganj; five each from 148 in Jhansi, 147 in involved in containment duty He warned that action be to ensure that every patient coronavirus. “We are trying to Jankipuram, Indira Nagar, Varanasi, 135 in Ballia and should work in a dedicated would be taken against mem- is attended to properly and make a committee of private Krishnanagar & Kakori; and 163 in Bareilly, taking the manner from 8 am to 11 pm. bers of the teams not turning up administered treatment as per doctors who can visit or attend four each from Bazaarkhala, tally to 60,939. There were District Magistrate for surveillance under the their requirements,” he added. to Covid-19 patients in isola- Talkatora, Kaiserbagh, 50 deaths across the state, Abhishek Prakash said the anti- Epidemic Diseases Act. Media spokesperson of tion both at the hotels and in Sarojininagar, Manaknagar, including 7 each in Lucknow gen testing will be increased and “All the teams should reach Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital level-1 private hospitals. I have Itaunja, Kaiserbagh and & Kanpur, four in Bareilly; the exercise of pasting stickers the centres at 8 am and leave for Dr Srikesh Singh said they are held online meetings in this Madiaon. two each in Varanasi, outside homes has to be paced different city areas at 9 am. giving ‘Remdesivir’ drug to regard with over 90 doctors of Giving details of the vic- Prayagraj, Meerut, Agra, up. He said if door-to-door Action will be taken against patients in a critical condition the association,” she added. tims, KGMU spokesperson Bulandshahr & Gonda; and surveillance is carried out seri- those who report after 9 am,” he and it costs Rs 3,000-5,000. President of Adarsh Vyapar Dr Sudhir Singh said that a one each in Jaunpur, ously for at least one week, the said. “Earlier, the drug was not easi- Mandal Sanjay Gupta said they 63-year-old woman from Para Moradabad, Sambhal, chain of infection can be broken Meanwhile, Director- ly available, but it is no longer have requested the state gov- Colony died on Friday. She Barabanki, Saharanpur, but it requires daily monitoring. General of Medical Health the issue. We have used this ernment to allow sweet shops was admitted to the hospital Muzaffarnagar, Ayodhya, The DM directed Bal Services Dr DS Negi, who took drug which helps in the recov- and bakeries to exempt from on July 21. The woman was Mathura, Chandauli, Bijnore, Mahila Chikitsalayas and com- charge on Thursday, said his pri- ery of patients with severe coro- weekend lockdown on August suffering from diabetes and Unnao, Azamgarh, Shamli, munity health centres to have ority would be to bring down navirus infection,” he said. 1 and 2 in view of Raksha she died due to cardiopul- Amroha, Mirzapur, collection points for samples the number of cases and contain He added that the health Bandhan (August 3). “Sweets monary arrest,” he said. Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich and gave them a target of con- the coronavirus spread. He said workers and staff on Covid-19 and bakery items are bought A 57-year-old woman and Lalitpur, taking the toll ducting 500 tests per day. he would soon be holding a duty are being given extensively for Raksha from Kaiserbagh, who was to 1,348. Besides, 1,909 per- Some of the BMCs and meeting to chart out a strategy. Hydroxychloroquine as a pro- Bandhan and if the shops are admitted on July 23, also died sons recovered across the CHCs raised the issue of space “It is important that the sur- phylactic. “We are also giving closed, people will face a lot of on Friday. “She was suffering state on Friday, taking the fig- for establishing the collection veillance is strengthened and this drug to asymptomatic problems,” he added. from gastroenteritis and died ure to 37,712. "% = ! "# ! Lucknow (PNS): UP Health asked from where he could Minister Jai Pratap Singh test- have contracted the infection ed positive for coronavirus on considering that he was taking Friday. The minister was quar- all the precautions, the min- antined at his residence in ister said he might have got Gomti Nagar and samples infected while meeting people were collected by the Health as part of his job. “Every week department from his family for two to three days, I was members, including wife and checking hospitals in the dis- two sons, and the staff. His tricts to monitor their work- office was also sealed by the ing. I was also monitoring sev- department. The minister said eral programmes of the Health he would be shifted to the department, which include hospital, if required. The sam- cases of dengue, Japanese ple was tested through encephalitis, malaria etc. We TrueNat machine at Civil also have to monitor the non- Hospital and after it came out Covid activities at the hospi- positive, it was sent to the lab tals such as the number of for confirmation by RTPCR. patients coming to the OPDs. Singh said he had a slight I have been engaged in these fever on Thursday and so he activities for the last one- got himself tested for coron- and-a-half months and may avirus. “I am in home isola- have contracted the infection tion and have been advised to in the meantime,” he added. take paracetamol for fever On whether he has any co- and check my pulse with an morbidities, he said he had oximeter. If required, I can none. “I suffer neither from also shift to the hospital. diabetes nor from hyperten- Lucknow (PNS): Following tion in Indira Nagar and protocol. The JCP also Ghazipur police station areas, Currently, I do not feel it is sion. Besides, I rarely take reports regarding residents in Gazipur police station areas on instructed the cops to slap there were reports that resi- required because I am asymp- medicines,” he said. Other containment zones not adher- Friday and asked the cops to fines on those violating lock- dents were flouting the norms. tomatic,” the minister said. ministers who have tested ing to lockdown guidelines, deal offenders sternly. The down norms. As the issue came to the notice “I have isolated myself in positive till now are Moti Joint Commissioner of Police police appealed through loud- After the lockdown was of senior officials, they issued a separate room away from Singh, Chetan Chauhan and (Law and Order) Naveen speakers asking people to imposed in Ashiyana, instructions for an inspection the family,” he added. When Upendra Tewari. Arora conducted an inspec- adhere to the guidelines and Sarojninagar, Indira Nagar and and sensitisation drive. 6 , 1 >) "$ 73 1'$=.?) out negative. He was discharged on 1'$=.?) immunity will have mild to moderate symp- the request of his son who said he toms. Those with poor immunity will have 75-year Covid-19 patient, who would take care of him in a private state-level workshop was organised by severe infection and may require ICU Awas admitted to SGPGI on July room at his own hospital,” Dr Athe Communicable Diseases department admission,” he pointed out. He said the cri- 9 and intubated on July 11 due to Hashim said. of Medical Health and Family Welfare on teria of ICU admission includes decrease of severe acute respiratory distress He said a lot of things helped Friday. The workshop was conducted by Dr oxygen saturation less than 95%, uncon- syndrome, was finally discharged in the recovery of the elderly Surya Kant from KGMU’s Respiratory sciousness, low blood pressure etc. after he recovered on Thursday. patient, including general patient Medicine department as a guest speaker for He added that general ICU management Incharge of ICU-1, Rajdhani care, drugs used and monitoring. training of chief medical officers, anaes- includes supplemental oxygen, steroids, IV Covid Hospital, Dr Zia Hashim “What we have learnt from this case thetists, physicians, chest physicians, staff Fluids, drugs to maintain BP, treatment of said it was a rare case of recovery is that one can put the elderly nurses and technicians of 75 UP districts. other comorbid conditions like diabetes, spe- because the patient had been on the patients on the ventilator and they DG (Health) Dr Mithlesh Chaturvedi cific treatment by drugs like Remdesivir and ventilator. “It is assumed that when can recover,” he said. and joint director of Communicable Diseases Tocilizumab as per expert opinion. The cri- patients are put on the ventilator, He added that the patient also Dr Rajendra Kapoor said the workshop was teria for ICU step down to ward is oxygen especially at this age, they do not suffers from diabetes and hyperten- attended at 304 centres of 75 districts. saturation more than 95%, normal BP, con- survive. He was given new antivi- sion. “He had a lot of infection and Dr Rajendra Kapoor said the lecture by scious patient, etc. ral drug Remdesivir and was extu- his chest X-ray was very bad at the Dr Surya Kant enlightened the participants Dr Surya Kant also discussed various bated three days back. His X-ray is time he was admitted to SGPGI,” he on management of severe COVID-19 patient prevention methods and lung immunity now normal and his RTPCR came pointed out. in ICUs. An interactive lecture on non- inva- enhancement. “The population at risk has sive ventilation was delivered by DG, Health to be prevented from infection, including Services, Dr DS Negi. children, elderly, pregnant women and peo- “This pandemic has caused severe mor- ple with comorbid conditions. Prevention 8 & % bidities and mortalities across India. methods such as social distancing, taking off Currently, the infection rate is growing at an shoes, chappals at the entrance of homes, 1'$=.?) ploughed into another truck parked alarming rate as are mortalities and severe handwashing, wearing masks while stepping on the roadside. Bablu suffered COVID-19 infection. In view of the current out, having healthy diet, meditation, yoga, 22-year-old helper of a truck serious injuries and died on the spot. scenario, proper training of healthcare exercise and good sleep. Jaggery in place of Adriver died after the vehicle col- providers has a significant role in disease con- sugar is beneficial but it is harmful for those lided with another stationary truck trol”, Dr Surya Kant said. He said one should having diabetes, obesity and heart disease,” in Banthra on Thursday night. The Thieves made off with cash and not panic about coronavirus infection as he said. “Hot drinks like warm water, tea, cof- deceased was identified as Bablu ornaments from a house (in Chinhat) roughly 50% of infected patients are asymp- fee, soup should be taken frequently to Kumar of Kanpur Dehat. which has been locked for the last tomatic. “Among symptomatic cases, 81% of increase the immunity of upper airway. Sleep As per reports, truck driver four months. Reports said Atiqur the patients have mild disease, 14% moder- is beneficial for enhanced immunity and Ramu Singh of Kanpur Dehat, Rahman and his family had gone to ate to severe disease and 5% may require ICU adults should have good seven hours of sleep. along with Bablu, was going to their native house in Deoria and the and mechanical ventilation. There is a need Mental peace or mental immunity promotes Jhansi after unloading goods in house was locked. Rahman was to categorise the patients for early ICU man- rapid healing by boosting immunity. Regular Lucknow. Around 1 am on Friday, informed by some neighbours that agement,” he said. meditation helps improve spiritual and when the truck reached Bani culvert his house had been burgled. He Dr Surya Kant said the immune status mental immunity. Obesity is house of all ill- in Banthra, a herd of stray animals reached Lucknow and lodged a case of a patient decides the severity of infection. ness as it greatly reduces the immunity. appeared on the road. Ramu applied in this connection. He told the police “Patients with very good immunity will Obesity is also a proven risk factor for brakes but he lost control of the that the thieves made off with Rs remain asymptomatic while those with low COVID-19,” he said. vehicle in the process. The vehicle 8,000 in cash apart from ornaments. !" # #
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Meanwhile in Jhansi, # 8 7* their custody on the night of Oing Congress and Bahujan common man, now public District Magistrate Andhra ab technician Sanjit Yadav, June 26 when they strangled Samaj Party condemned the proclamations are ven as Chief Minister Yogi Vamsi said that four jail bar- Lkidnapped on June 22 in him. “They then wrapped his killing of the lab technician being made about it, she said, EAdityanath stressed on racks were converted into Kanpur, was killed within a % % body in a plastic bag and and alleged that there was adding that be it home, road, medical screening of all jail Covid hospital and all 120 week of being held captive in dumped it into Pandu river. ‘jungle raj’ in the state. office, no one felt safe any- inmates for coronavirus infec- inmates who tested positive the last week of June. This 1'$=.?) charge Rajesh Kumar were After his death, the miscreants Bahujan Samaj Party pres- where. tion, as many as 160 inmates of were admitted there. surfaced during interroga- suspended two days back, demanded a ransom of Rs 30 ident Mayawati in a tweet said, “After Vikram Joshi, now Ballia district jail were found to “The hospital has been tion of five suspects picked up fter kidnapped lab tech- sub-inspector at Barra police lakh from the victim’s family “In another incident during abducted Sanjeet Yadav in be positive on Friday. equipped with all necessary by Crime Branch personnel Anician Sanjit Yadav was station, Yogendra Pratap on June 29,” he said. the jungle raj in Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur has been killed. The On Thursday, at least 120 medical equipment and the who probed the case. killed by his abductors in Singh, and constables Amidst the raging contro- the body of Sanjit Yadav was police got the money paid to inmates of Jhansi district jail affected inmates are being Addressing media per- Kanpur, Chief Minister Yogi Awadhesh, Saurabh Pandey, versy over the ransom being thrown into the river by his the kidnappers and he was were found to be inflicted by the monitored by three teams of sons in Kanpur on Friday, Adityanath ordered the sus- Vinod Kumar, Manish and paid in the presence of police kidnappers in Kanpur. This is killed as well. A new goonda raj viral infection during tests. doctors. If needed, the inmates Kanpur SSP Dinesh Kumar pension of 10 cops, includ- Shiv Pratap were handed personnel, the SSP said that very sad and condemnable. has come into being,” Priyanka Confirming the develop- will be shifted to Jhansi med- Prabha said that Ishu alias ing ASP (South) Aparna out suspension orders on the bag recovered from the The state government needs to Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi. ment on Friday, Jail ical college hospital for further Gyanendra Yadav of Dabauli Gupta and CO (Barra) Friday. ADG (PHQ) BP accused did not contain any immediately come into action “In this jungle raj, law and Superintendent in Ballia district treatment,” the district magis- West, Kuldeep Goswami of Manoj Gupta, for dereliction Jogdand was asked to probe cash. But he media persons specially in the matters of order has surrendered before jail, Prashant Kumar Maurya, trate said. In early July, an Saraimita Kachchi Basti, Nilu of duty on Friday. the case and directed to assured that a probe was crime control and law and the goons,” she said. said that a Health department inmate Shripat showed symp- Singh of Gajja Purwa, Ramji While SHO of Barra, reach Kanpur from underway to examine the order.” team conducted tests on 594 toms of coronavirus infection Shukla of Ambedkarpuram Ranjit Rai, and outpost in- Lucknow. veracity of the victim’s kin Congress general secre- inmates, out of which 160 test- and was put in a 14-day quar- (Gujaini) and Priti Sharma of assertion that a bag contain- tary Priyanka Gandhi said the ed positive. Maurya said that a antine. On July 9, when his Kaushalpuri were arrested for lier worked with Sanjit in a Nilu followed them on Sanjit’s ing the ransom was thrown woman inmate was also found condition did not improve, he their complicity in the kid- pathology and became bike. On the way, they bought from a flyover down on rail to be positive and was admit- was admitted to Jhansi medical napping and murder of Sanjit friends. He said on June 22, some liquor and snacks and tracks, as instructed by the ted to Level-1 hospital in college hospital. It is suspected (27). One of aides, Simmi Kuldeep called Sanjit near consumed liquor in the car miscreants. The SSP also said Basantpur. that some jail staff might have Singh of Gajja Purwa Dhanvantari Hospital on the near Tatya Tope Nagar. As per that PAC divers were pressed “All positive inmates were come in contact with Shripat (Sachendi) was absconding. pretext of celebrating his plan, Sanjit was offered liquor into service to recover the later lodged in a separate bar- after which the infection spread Besides, three bikes birthday. laced with sedative after body of Sanjit from Pandu rack and were being provided to other inmates. (including that of the victim) “Sanjit came from which he passed out. He was river. Efforts are now being medicines and other facilities as Coronavirus infection and a Ford Figo car were Naubasta on his bike and taken to a rented room in made to trace the victim’s per government directives,” he among jail inmates in Uttar recovered from the accused. met his friends near a canal. Ratanlal Nagar and held motorcycle and mobile phone said. In September, 2019, Ballia Pradesh has been rising by the The SSP said that There they boarded hostage,” the officer said. which were missing since he district jail shot into limelight day. Jail inmates of Gautam Gyanendra and Kuldeep ear- Gyanendra’s Ford Figo while The SSP further said that was kidnapped. when 850 inmates had to be Buddha Nagar, Ghaziabad, shifted to other jails due to Agra, Lucknow, Mau, Ballia heavy waterlogging inside the and Sonbhadra have been 8; barracks following incessant found to be infected by the rains. The Ballia jail has a virus. With most jails of the 1'$=.?) tion under which over 37 lakh government had paid Rs 1,000 Ujjawala scheme, under which capacity of 350 inmates but like state housing more than their people returned to their villages each to over 10.48 lakh work- beneficiaries get free LPG con- other UP it is overcrowded. The capacity and no concrete steps he Uttar Pradesh govern- in less than two months’ time. ers. Thus, over 19 lakh people nections, had been extended jail building too is dilapidated being taken by prison author- Tment cleared the second The UP government not only have received this allowance for till September 2020. While and waterlogging as a routine ities in this regard, the contain- instalment of sustenance provided food for them but also the second time. talking about the pre-disaster affair during monsoons as it is ment of infection among allowance to workers and farm- ensured employment for the “The government has app which was launched on located in a low lying area. inmates seems a far cry. ers as Chief Minister Yogi people who were skilled in ensured that the benefits of the Friday, Yogi said that modern Adityanath transferred Rs 90.88 various fields,” Yogi said at the government schemes reach the technology would help in sav- crore to over 9.88 lakh workers function held at his 5, Kalidas last man on the ladder. ing precious lives from natur- 8 with the click of the mouse on Marg official residence. He Employment is being provid- al calamities. The integrated Friday. said that Prime Minister ed to the people through skill early warning system and 1'$=.?) somewhere else and the body The CM also launched a Narendra Modi provided relief mapping. At present over 50 Aapda Prahari App are the dumped in the area to send pre-disaster app, the Integrated to these people by declaring free lakh people are working. Some brainchild of the Revenue 28-year-old loader driver across a strong message to his Early Warning System, and distribution of ration for them are employed in MGNREGA department for which they Awas recovered from a family,” villagers said. early flood management mod- till November this year. “The schemes in which they are deserve appreciation. pond in Malihabad on Friday Father Mahipal said Ram ule named Aapda Prahari on UP government, on its part, planting trees or digging ponds In Integrated Early and it was suspected that he Baksh was in love with a girl this occasion. “The world is fac- gave a sustenance allowance of while some are working on the Warning System, the forecast of was murdered by the kin of a and used to call her off and on. ing the biggest challenge in the Rs 1000,” Yogi said. This was highways,” Yogi said. Besides bad weather can be sent to girl with whom he was said to “The family members of the form of COVID-19 and India the second instalment of suste- this, he said, every beneficiary 54,000 gram pradhans, 24,000 be in love. The incident came girl were against their relation- is no different. Uttar Pradesh, nance allowance which the was being paid Rs 2,000 under lekhpals, 1.59 lakh anganwadi to light after the body was ship and even opposed to home to 23 crore people, has government gave on Friday. Pradhan Mantri Kisan workers, 1.51 lakh ASHA work- recovered on Friday morning. their telephonic conversation. seen the biggest reverse migra- Earlier, on June 13, 2020, the Samman Nidhi and the ers and 35,000 policemen. Police claimed to have They may have killed Ram detained five suspects who Baksh and dumped the body were being interrogated. into the pond,” he alleged. %!"&' As per reports, Ram Baksh Mahipal further alleged $ $" $$ " of a village in Malihabad was the pond belongs to a close reported missing on July 22 friend of the girl’s father. “Ram "&! after he left home for some Baksh was stopped near the work. On Friday, some vil- pond a couple of days back !@@8$ lagers spotted the body in the and threatened,” he said, alleg- !#" ! pond on the outskirts and the ing that the girl’s father and his 1'$=.?) Ravidas Nagar, Varanasi, Mirzapur, news flew thick and fast. A aides killed his son. Sonbhadra, Mau, Azamgarh, Ballia, !)"& huge number of villagers, The police accepted the he Uttar Pradesh government has Deoria, Kushinagar, Gorakhpur, including the kin of Ram complaint in which Mahipal Tgiven in principle approval to pri- Maharajganj, Sant Kabir Nagar, Basti, Lucknow (PNS): The LDA board Baksh, flocked to the scene. named the girl's father and his vatise the Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Siddharthnagar, Prayagraj, meeting was held on Friday and The deceased was identified by aides. “Five of the accused Nigam Limited, (PVVNL), one of the Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, and presided over by Divisional his kin. In the meantime, a have been detained and were five power distribution companies Kaushambi. Commissioner Mukesh Meshram. police team reached there. being interrogated. The body (discoms) which are wholly owned The PVVNL represents 23.60 The meeting was also attended by The police said the has been sent for autopsy and subsidiaries of the UP Power per cent of the total electricity sup- the LDA VC and Municipal deceased had wounds on the the scientific evidence are Corporation Limited (UPPCL). plied by the UPPCL, 29.28 per cent Commissioner. face and other body parts. “It being collected,” the police Purvanchal Vitran Nigam covers of the total electricity consumers and The board gave its nod to dis- appeared he was done to death said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 19.97 per cent of the total revenue of tribution of the remaining compen- Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, the UPPCL. Of over 83 lakh con- sation amount (Rs 30.42 crore) for and Gorakhpur, the home turf of sumers in PVVNL, 84 per cent are the Vasantkunj and Hardoi road Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. rural consumers and 15.95 are urban schemes amongst the farmers. The government has also pre- consumers. The AT&C losses, or line The board also approved the pared broad terms and conditions losses, of the PVVNL stand at whop- distribution of Rs 1.12 crore amongst which would be finalised once the ping 41.12 per cent. The average 142 allottees whose lands in the model standard bidding document aggregate technical & commercial Cattle Colony were impacted by (SBD) is issued by the Union (AT&C) loss in Uttar Pradesh is 30 construction of a bandha under the Ministry of Energy. At present, only per cent, higher than the national Vasantkunj scheme. The board gave Agra has a private power distribution average of 19.19 per cent. its nod to the adjustment of 322 plots franchisee run by Torrent Power. According to official sources, the impacted by bandha construction. National Electricity Supply UPPCL is proposing to follow the In a bid to prevent defaulters Distribution Company Limited, a model proposed by the Union from participating in auctions of joint venture company floated by the Ministry of Energy. According to a LDA for commercial properties, the PSU power generator NTPC and the senior official of the UPPCL, “As per board decided that if LDA allotted Power Grid Corporation of India the model proposed by the Union any commercial property in the past Limited, is said to be the front-run- ministry, fixed assets will remain in and three continuous installments ner to take over the PVVNL. The the books of the PSU discom and have not been deposited, the com- officials of this company were also the investor who will be given licence pany would be considered a default- present in the meeting held here on to operate the power distribution er and would not be allowed to par- Thursday. company for 25 years will pay ticipate in any auction. As per gov- As per the presentation, power charges for the electricity supplied by ernment notification, the free-hold distribution of only six districts, the power grid.” tax charge will also be added to the Gorakhpur, Basti, Prayagraj, He added, “Cleaning of the con- estimated cost of land at the time of Mirzapur, Varanasi and Azamgarh, sumer data base is under process and auction. The board also approved would be given to the new compa- the target is to complete it within construction of the multilevel park- ny. Power distribution in the rest of next 3-4 months.” ing in the parking area of Transport the districts of east UP will remain The UP government in its pre- Nagar project and construction of with the PVVNL. The districts sentation also stated that the process the overbridge under PPP model to presently under PVVNL include of cleaning the bad debt was also connect the Transport Nagar Metro Ghazipur, Chandauli, Jaunpur, Sant under process. station with this multilevel parking. :A.B+(
Prabhav Khera, a student of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar Campus I, performed bril- liantly at Advanced Placement (AP) examination, winning ‘AP Scholar with Distinction Award’. This award is bestowed upon stu- dents who excel in academics. Prabhav appeared in five subjects and achieved a perfect score of 5 in 4 subjects. CMS founder Jagdish Gandhi expressed happiness over Prabhav’s success and wished him a bright future. # A mural of a goddess by LMC inside Gomti Nagar police station kicked up a row after some advocates raised objection. The police later got the mural erased. DCP (East) Somen Burma said LMC is carrying out beautification of the city through murals and the image of a god- dess inside the police station irked the advo- cates who found it objectionable. “It was immediately removed,” he said. He said no FIR was registered in this connection. !" # # . $ ? @ 0> 77* % # 9 11+0 # " " 5@$ rayagraj reported its high- Pest single-day spike in coro- navirus cases as 110 people 11+0 A total of 43 rapid response teams have been E4. vailed in Ballia which has tested positive and the city formed in the district, who will contact patients inched closer to cross 1K- witnessed two COVID-19 fter the orders of the Yogi Adityanath wishing to be in home isolation and ask them he day saw the biggest mark when in the antigen test- deaths late on Thursday night. AGovernment, home isolation facility has also some questions on mobile. Eg, whether the Tspike during the day on ing, the reports of 132 prison- The number of patients with been started in Prayagraj from Friday. Under patient has mobile or not, separate room and Friday as 179 COVID-19 ers were found positive. A day coronavirus is increasing rapid- this, home isolation has been arranged for coro- separate bathroom or not etc. If the patient does patients have been found. With ago 28 prisoners were found ly rather than decreasing. na patients from Friday. The Health department not answer it, he will be brought to the hospi- this sharp jump, the total num- positive. The health of 594 This number was the high- has prepared its outline. Now corona-infected tal. If the patient says that this resource is with ber of cases has crossed 1800- prisoners was tested and 28 of est ever because patients were patients, having no symptoms, can remain in him, then his physical verification will be mark. Earlier, the highest one them were found positive a day still getting in two digits only, home isolation. Preparations continued for done. day’s figure was 115 recoded on earlier, while 132 on Thursday. but now the number of patients this till Thursday night. Separate rapid response During this time, the patient will have to buy June 20. It was the second time With this, separate arrange- started getting in hundreds. teams have been formed for village and urban the necessary things like pulse oximeters, when the number of patients ments for these positive prison- With this, the number of coro- areas. gloves. If patients are able to arrange all found during a day was in three ers have been made. Besides, 14 na patients has increased to Due to the increasing infection of corona, these things then they will be allowed home iso- figures. With this, total num- new positive patients have been 1,275 now. it was announced by the state government that lation. ber of patients has increased to found in Sonbhadra, increasing The number of corona instead of bringing the asymptomatic corona Dr. Rishi Sahai, the nodal officer for 1,822. With one more death the total number to 366 with patients in the district has patients to the hospital, they would be kept in COVID-19, said that the rapid response team earlier, the toll has increased to 175 active patients while 191 increased very fast in the home isolation. The district administration and and doctors will be in contact with patients liv- 38. The day also saw no relief have been recovered. month of July. If we look at the Health department had been preparing for four ing in home isolation. If they face any problem, as only the follow-up reports of In all, during the last one data for just ten days, about 647 days to implement this rule in the district. then the immediate team will help them. 25 patients were found negative ( ' ) * day by Thursday, the belt of corona patients have been and later on, they have been ' +*%,-./ Purvanchal (eastern UP) com- found. Currently there are 539 crowd. The number of testing manufacturers, travel and centres of mass assembly have discharged from the hospitals. prising 10 districts of three active cases, while 694 corona centres is being increased. Now transport, school and college provision of hand sanitisers and With this, the total number of divisions has seen an increase patients have gone home after testing centres are being start- students, clients and advocates, soap/ water. The government patients who have been recov- in government job and posted department of (BHU). Till of 316 patients and the total recovering. ed in Naini, Jhunsi and patients and doctors, construc- must ensure provision of ered has increased to 788, leav- at PAC Battalion at Gorakhpur then, the total test results number of patients has On Thursday, 53 corona Phaphamau as well. tion labour, in short all sections these in market places, schools, ing 996 active patients. It indi- and was on duty at Varanasi received were 26,591 and the increased to 6,956. The day saw patients became corona free. Of The 10 day figures are as of working people. They are courts, etc. Only the govern- cates that even the number of and the second is also a male results of 4,252 excluding 696 improvement in recovery rate them, 10 patients from Kotwa follows—on July 13, a total of playing no role and they have ment can do so and it is its duty active patient is just close to who was aged 43 and resident RTPCR samples collected a as out of the total cases, 4,109 Bani, two from Railway 24 positive cases were report- no role in checking the spread to do so, but it has totally failed 1K-mark. of Tej Nagar (Shivpur). In the day ago are awaited. Out of (59.07 per cent) have been Hospital, two from ed. Similarly, on July 14: 21 pos- of corona as is obvious from to do so. Physical distancing According to the Chief first report received by 11 am these, 24,908 were negative discharged from the hospitals, Kalindipuram, 19 from Beli itive, July 15: 52 positive, July facts of spread that have too is an essential component Medical Officer (CMO) Dr during the day as many as 40 reports, while 1,683 positive. while 2,734 (39.33 per cent) are and 20 from SRN were dis- 16: 32 positive, July 17: 67 pos- emerged now for more than during long duration closed VB Singh, two persons who new corona patients were The total number of samples active patients. The mortality charged. With this, reports of itive, July 18: 57 positive, July 120 days. room contact, not in open died during treatment earlier found out of 145 reports collected was 31,539. rate remained good as it is 1.61 981 samples have come nega- 19: 83 positive, July 20: 55 pos- The government is also air. were a person aged 58 who was received from Microbiology Earlier, utter chaos pre- per cent with 112 deaths. tive while 1,069 samples have itive, July 21: 52 positive, July further complicating matters by UP committee of CPI(ML) been taken for COVID-19 test. 22: 94 positive while on July 23: imposing harsh and unwar- New Democracy appeals to Dr Rishi Sahai, the Nodal 110 positive cases of coron- ranted fines, as the British the government, its advisors Officer for COVID-19 said avirus were found in the city. colonialists used to do, rather and all concerned persons to that the number of corona LOCKDOWNS COM- than do what is most essential review the lockdown , 0' ' # patients has so far reached POUNDING PROBLEMS: for preventing the spread of imposition as it is creating 1,275. Repeated and unscientific lock- corona. insurmountable difficulties The number of covid care downs, both periodic and long The necessary scientific for working people, students centres is also being increased. duration, being imposed by the measure for implementation and patients and is leaving E4. Dr Sahai appealed to the peo- government are severely com- amongst masses is to distribute space only for MNC and ple to avoid corona and stated pounding the problems of peo- masks by activating peoples’ corporate operations, govern- ivisional Commissioner that one has to become aware ple, peasants, agricultural teams, including stitching and ment machinery and super D(DC) Deepak Agrawal has and refrain from going into the workers, shopkeepers, small educating and to ensure that all rich. asked the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to take an immediate decision in relation to the hos- pitalisation or home isolation : R 5 of corona positive patients. ‘There should not be any delay or negligence by the medical 11+0 was released from the police teams at any stage,’ he said, station in 2005 following the specifically emphasising that shutosh Tandon, Urban court order. detected patients should either ADevelopment Minister of Here, the affidavit given to be admitted to Covid hospitals UP and son of the Madhya the Election Commission was or ask for home isolation with- Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon noticed when the police start- in a day. He was holding a immersed ashes of his father in ed investigating the arms meeting with the Health the sacred waters of the license associated with Atique. department and other officials Sangam here on Friday. Based on the license number here on Thursday. He arrived here in given in it, when the police He further directed the , , # 1 # ' * $ forenoon hours with the urn matched all the facts, it was CMO that the antigen tests containing ashes of Lalji found that the double-barrel should be done immediately of Tandon and reached Sangam gun was missing. Inspector all those identified with symp- have been deployed for collect- of patients, the government treatment would be covered where former West Bengal Dhumanganj Shamsher toms like cough, fever or ing sampling should start their hospitals are facing mounting under the insurance schemes. Governor Pt Keshri Nath Bahadur said that a report has breathing problems during the work every day by 9 am and pressures. He said that the pri- The virtual meeting was Tripathi, MP Keshri Devi Patel, been sent to the District recent special surveillance sur- negligence will not be tolerat- vate hospitals should provide also attended by ADM MLA Harsh Bajpai, Deepak Magistrate for cancellation of vey campaign conducted ed at any stage in this direction. Level 1 and L2 isolation wards (Administration), CMO and Patel and scores of BJP leaders Atique's gun license. A hunt for between July 5 and July 15. He Meanwhile, in his virtual for Covid-19 patients so that many other doctors including and workers paid tribute to the the gun is also underway. The said that if any of them is found talks with the doctors of private the mounting pressures on the Dr SP Yadav, Dr Subodh MP Governor. Khuldabad police on Tuesday corona positive, then the same hospitals, UP Minister of State government hospitals can be Kumar Singh, Dr Ashok Rai, After the shraddhanjali recovered Atique's rifle and pis- should either be admitted to (Independent Charge) minimised and the patients Dr SP Singh, Dr Madhulika sabha Ashutosh Tandon tol from his office. Covid hospitals or ask for Ravindra Jaiswal appealed to can get better health services. Singh, Dr Pallavi Mishra, Dr immersed the ashes into the Dhumanganj police also home isolation. He laid special the private hospitals to cooper- He further said that the govern- Manish Chaudhary, Dr Preeti Sangam waters amidst chanti- deposited the rifle of Asgar, a emphasis on conducting anti- ate in the ongoing fight against ment had already made it clear Gupta, Dr SK Singh, Dr ng of mantras. resident of Rasulpur, close aide gen tests in groups. He also said coronavirus pandemic as due that the private medical facili- Alok Bhardwaj and Dr Safiq REPORT SENT TO DM $ ' & ### to Atique, at the police station that the lab technicians who to sharp increasing in number ties to be used in COVID-19 Haider. FOR CANCELLATION OF !$ on Wednesday. Asgar's arms ATIQUE’S GUN LICENSE: license has also been revoked. During the investigation of report of Dhumanganj police of the guns was in the name of Police had also deposited the former MP Atique and his station in the year 1984. In Majid, a resident of Kasari weapons of both Talib and , ; % R gang members, the cops got 1985, three firearms, including Masari, while It was not known Gulfull's sons on Tuesday. This another clue. Atique Ahmed the double-barrel gun, had as to whom the other gun action is being taken after the also has a double-barrel gun, been deposited at the belonged to. Atique's gun cancellation of the arms license E4. matic and was facing breathing launch an agitation. The rela- patients by burning at ghat and whose license was issued on the Khuldabad police station. One license was also revoked but it of seven people. problems but he was referred tive of deceased patient they also denied providing am Admi Party (AAP) to DDU Hospital, instead of Sir Prashant Kumar Pandey wood for the same. They Aexpressed its concern over Sundarlal Hospital (SSH) in alleged that his brother-in- argued that the cremation of the laxity being shown by the Banaras Hindu University law died of laxity shown by the bodies of the COVID-19 Health department during the where he could be given sup- hospital during treatment. patents by burning causes the ? " treatment of a corona patient port from a ventilator. LODGE FIR AGAINST transmission of the infection. and demanded an inquiry into He said that on July 21, the RUMOUR MONGERS: In fact, some had spread the death of a resident of said patient died and his Taking a serious note of rumours that the cremation of Prahlad Ghat area. In this COVID-19 report was received rumour about the transmission COVID-19 patients causes the )4?#$$ direction, a delegation of party next day in which it is said that of infection by burning the transmission of infection led by district incharge Mukesh there were light symptoms of body of COVID-19 patient, the and these persons came under Singh submitted a memoran- corona which indicates that he District Magistrate Kaushal the influence of rumour mon- in speed of goods trains. bring efficiency in rake han- that as per provision of section dum to the district administra- died of diabetes and asthma Raj Sharma has directed the gers. 11+0 Identified electrification of dling and faster evacuation of 102 of criminal procedure code tion here on Friday. instead of corona and demand- magistrate and police officer When this information missing links to bring effi- freight trains. (CrPC) a police officer is AAP workers said that ed an inquiry into the death of for lodging an FIR against the reached the DM, he took a ain thrust of the North ciency in train operations WRIT PETITION DIS- empowered to seize a proper- when a resident from Prahlad the patient. District president rumour monger under the serious note of it and directed MCentral Railway is on includes 126.66 Kms between POSED: The Allahabad High ty which creates suspicion of Ghat was facing breathing Kailash Patel demanded a Disaster Management Act. the Additional City Magistrate electrification for mission 50 Bhandai and Etawah, Court has held that a police commission of any offence. problems recently, the family high-level inquiry and strict It may be noted here that (ACM) and Station House Kmph average speed of goods 115.51Kms between Birla officer is empowered to seize a He further pointed out the affi- members rushed him to Shree action against guilty Health after the death of the COVID- Officer (SHO) of the Bhelupur trains on sustained basis. It has Nagar to Etawah , 386 Kms property which creates suspi- davit filed by Deputy Shiv Prasad Gupta (SSPG) department officers. 19 patients, the bodies are police station to deal strictly identified electrification of between Mahoba to Udaipura cion of commission of any Commissioner of Police, Hospital, Kabirchaura, for He also demanded com- taken to the Harishchandra with rumor mongers. The DM missing links and other infra- via Khajuraho and 106.29 Kms offence. ‘It is not disputed that NOIDA, which stated that the treatment but after examining pensation of 25 lakh for the Ghat for cremation by burning directed the officers to hold structure works for seamless between Shikohabad and a ‘bank account’ is a property seizure was effected, duly the patient, the hospital bereaved family apart from a and through the electric system meetings with the persons and efficient train operations. Farrukhabad on North Central which is capable of seizure. The entered in case diary and as per referred the patient to Pt. Deen government job to a family in the electric crematorium engaged in the cremation pro- Despite COVID-19 crisis punc- Railway. In adjoining Railways caveat attached to such a established procedure, the same Dayal Upadhaya (DDU) member. The AAP workers too. But, the community fession and pacify them that tuality of passenger trains and critical electrification works seizure is that the seizure shall was submitted before the Hospital (L2) terming the have threatened the district engaged in the cremation pro- there is no transmission of average speed of good trains are Bandikui to Jaipur on be reported by the police offi- Additional Chief Judicial patient as corona positive. administration that if within 72 fession at this ghat, raised an infection by burning the over North Central Railway has NWR, Guna to Gwalior on cer forthwith to the competent Magistrate (ACJM-III) Gautam Mukesh Singh said that the hours no decision is taken in objection over the cremation of bodies of the COVID-19 increased substantially. With WCR, Unnao to Dalmau & magistrate’, the court added. Budh Nagar. The contents of patient was diabetic and asth- this direction, they would the bodies of the COVID-19 patients. impeccable maintenance of Unnao to Balamau on NR and Disposing of writ petition filed the said paragraph remain assets and operating discipline, Aunrihar to Bhatni on NER. by Independent TV Limited, a uncontroverted, he added. The NCR has achieved average With completion of these crit- division bench comprising court also refused to rely on a speed of 45 Kmph plus in July ical electrification works pas- Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice judgment, which proceeded # % < and 42 kmph upto July in cur- senger and freight trains will Deepak Verma the court on the premise that the seizing rent financial year thus regis- run completely on electric trac- directed that in the event, the authority i.e. the police is tering substantial improvement tion on end to end basis with- petitioner stakes a claim to denuded of its power to seize E4. has reason to believe that any alias Jhunna Pandit, resident of a TVS Apache motorcycle, a of 70 per cent over last year. In out need of enroute change of defreeze the account in ques- unless prior permission of the property, whether moveable Hasimpur Ramdattpur under Mahindra Scorpio; Scooty terms of volume NCR has locomotive and crew from tion within three weeks, the magistrate is obtained. n wake of the recent highly- or immovable, in possession of Lalpur Pandeypur (Cantt) worth 55,000 of Sarai loaded 38.2 Lakh tonnes freight electric to diesel and vice- magistrate shall decide the Refusing to agree to this judg- Ipublicised episode of Vikas any person has been acquired police station; 93.66 sq. metres Govardhan (Chetganj) resi- so far and has earned freight versa. This will help immense- same after hearing the parties ment, the court observed, ‘This Dubey and increasing action by a gangster as a result of the property at Lamahi Pargana dent Pooja Mishra; a splendor revenue of Rs 437.55 crore. ly in improving average speed concerned in accordance with view runs absolutely counter to against the criminals on the commission of an offence tri- Shivpur purchased in the name motorcycle worth 50,000 of Formation of Business of goods trains and punctual- law as expeditiously as possible. sub-section (3) of section 102 instructions of the state govern- able under this Act, he may of Om Prakash Mishra apart Vinod Kumar, resident of Development Units and ity of coaching trains over The petitioner had sought of the criminal procedure code ment, District Magistrate (DM) order attachment of such prop- from Passion Plus motorcycle, Birbhanpur under Rohania improvements in goods sheds North Central and adjoining direction against Senior (CrPC), wherein the seizure is Kaushal Raj Sharma has erty whether or not cogni- Royal Enfield Bullet and police station area; house situ- are important initiatives to Railways. Besides electrifica- Superintendent of Police, required to be reported to the ordered to confiscate property sance of such offence has...’ 1,00,520 recovered in search; ated in Khajuri Nai Basti worth increase freight loading. North tion, North Central Railway has Gautam Budh Nagar and competent magistrate after the worth over 2.54 crore of six In all the DM has ordered property worth 1,56,12,240 of 36,99,430,of Rajkumar Central Railway is now work- also identified track connectiv- Enforcement Directorate, New same has been effected. ‘Once vicious criminals of the district. for attachment of total proper- Sanjay Singh alias Pappu Singh Maurya, resident of Khajuri ing on mission average speed of ity works at major sidings with Delhi to defreeze its (petition- seizure has been reported to the The DM has taken the action ty worth 2,54,71,945 of these of Sanjay Nagar Colony Pandeypur under Shivpur 50 Kmph of goods train on sus- serving railway station like er’s) current account in Punjab competent magistrate, the peti- under the provisions of Section six criminals of the district. DM (Pahadia) under Lalpur- police station and a Super tained basis. Besides already Prayagraj Power Generation National Bank, Noida forth- tioner may stake a claim in 14 (1) of Uttar Pradesh ordered to attach a two- Pandeypur police station which Splendor motorcycle worth taken measures, North Central Siding Bara, Lalitpur Power with. However, the Additional accordance with law before Gangsters and Anti-Social storeyed house of 81.78 sq includes Pucca house built in 55,275 of Ajay Kumar Railway has identified critical Generation Company, Lalitpur Government Advocate (first), the magistrate concerned’, the Activities (Prevention) Act, metres located at Hasimpur 600 sq. ft. in Ramrepur, three- Chaurasia, resident of Qutuban electrification projects and and NTPC at Meja. Neeraj Kanta Verma, who rep- court added. 1986. The provision of the act worth about 60 lakh pur- storey house built on 0.035 Shaheed under Kotwali police other infrastructure works to Completion of balance connec- resented the state government The court passed this judg- says ‘if the District Magistrate chased by Sriprakash Mishra hectare plot in Ramrepur itself, station. bring quantum improvement tivity works at these sidings will opposed the petition, saying ment on July 9, 2020. !" # #
" $$#( ! & - 8 8PSS@TQPI9@IU -. /#0 Sirawal village in Prayagraj under ODOP scheme the gave information about the progress was nill. The DM was alia police arrested six eight bikes at his house and apprised that under PM’s Job > Hmembers of an inter-state helped the police in recovering Creation Scheme six benefi- ( gang of motorcycle thieves and them. The accused were iden- ciaries had been benefited and 5& recovered 10 motorcycles from tified as Jitendra Kol, Dinesh, Rs 11.50 lakh had been dis- them. SO Halia Amit Singh was Anuj Dubey, Om Pandey and bursed. The DM directed the tipped off by an informer On LDM to take action case wise =.3'4 6 =.3'4 Thursday regarding a deal and ask the bankers to do the about stolen bikes in Banjari needful promptly and report to dditional Chief Secretary he We Bankers Officers village. At this the police swung him in next meeting. A(Medical Education) TAssociation in a statement into action, raided it, found six Reviewing the allotment of Rajneesh Dubey said to contain issued on Friday said that the suspects engaged in illegal industrial sheds the DM direct- the rising number of coron- coronavirus threat was haunt- dealing at Sri Krishna Sharan ed the deputy commissioner, avirus cases and COVID-19 ing bankers, where they were Singh Inter College. When Industries, to write the letter to deaths, the critical care support highly exposed to the general they inquired about the pur- Asheesh Bind, residents of the allottees who had not start- system of hospitals here would public dealing and now a five- pose behind their presence Prayagraj and Satish Shukla, a ed any industries and get those soon be strengthened. day week was the requirement there they could not give a sat- resident of Rewa, MP. The sheds vacated. The meeting was Addressing the medical of the hour. isfactory answer. During inter- police sent the accused to jail. attended by EEs, PWD and officials, the additional chief The association said with rogation they confessed their MEETING: The Udyog Electricity, bankers and others. secretary said the hospital the government saying no to involvement in theft of motor- Bandhu meeting held at KILLED: A woman was would soon get 54 Bipap five-day week the association bikes not only in adjacent dis- Collectorate on Thursday was killed in a clash in Khodaaipur machines and 25 laser equip- was crestfallen. tricts but in MP too. The police chaired by DM Sushil Kumar village under the Halia police ment which would help in Association’s general sec- recovered four countrymade Patel. The DM took the bankers station. According to a identifying viruses by shining retary Rahul Mishra said guns as many cartridges, two to task for tardy progress in report, two groups had a a light on a disposable cartridge another jolt to the bankers mobile phones, two Aadhar advances under government- scuffle in which Prabhawati having sample from swabs. was the 15 per cent pact which cards and 190 in cash. Two sponsored schemes. He was (65), wife of Lalmani Dubey, He said more anaesthetists was pending for the past three motorbikes which they had apprised by the deputy com- died while Lalmani and Anjani would be appointed. years. He said more disheart- were also found to be stolen missioner, Industries, that sustained minor injuries. Dubey said the treatment ening was the mere rise of 2.5 ones. On further interroga- under the CM’s Youth Self- Satyadev had been taken into of COVID-19 by two new anti- per cent in basic pay. tion Anuj Dubey, a resident of Employment Scheme and custody by the police. viral drugs was being started at He said in the new pension LLR Hospital also. scheme the bank contribution He expressed concern that now had been made 14 per cent !'" ! !!) !"&./"' despite several requests and instead of 10 per cent. He said 8PSS@TQPI9@IU '()*+, and praised the efforts of the Ministry of Coal directives given to the senior $ 3) , # & , ,$ ' 0# .4 ) another anti-workers stand was for planting more than six lakh plants and dis- doctors to regularly take , ' +# $ % !# the leave encashment which nder the ‘Vriksharopan Abhiyan’ (planta- tribution of five lakh plants at 150 places in a rounds of Covid hospitals to would now be evaluated on the Ution campaign) the foundation stone of eco day. CMD NCL Prabhat Kumar Sinha, MP of monitor the progress of performance of the bank. park was laid at Bina project of NCL, Singrauli, Sidhi Riti Pathak, director (Technical / COVID-19 patients, little =.3'4 Asfad said while struggling to get well, he on Thursday. The park would be developed in Operations) Gunadhar Pandey, director progress had been made in this realised that it was his duty to contribute in sav- P an estimated area of about 70,000 (Personnel) Bimlendu Kumar, director direction so far. rban Development Minister Satish Mahana, ing other lives as well. He said for this it was nec- ; square metres and the reservoir locat- (Technical / Project & Planning) Dr The additional chief secre- Uafter accepting equipment worth 10 lakh essary to equip doctors and paramedical staff to District Legal Services ed at Bina has a capacity of about Aninday Sinha, director (Finance) Ram tary sounded a word of caution, donated by Omega Tannery India Private work fearlessly amidst the coronavirus positive Authority, Kanpur Nagar, 2,10,000 cubic metres. Under the cam- Narayan Dubey and other dignitaries saying that senior doctors could Limited Director Md Asfad on Friday, said the patients. The Omega Tannery director said he meeting chaired by District paign more than 80,000 saplings were witnessed this ambitious plantation cam- not leave the COVID-19 time had come for all affluent people to donate met the GSVM Medical College authorities and Judge AK Singh conducted a planted in about 80 acres of land and paign at NCL headquarters, Singrauli. patients at the mercy of junior generously, especially for the Health department, asked them about their requirement so that the virtual inspection of District more than 20,000 fruit-bearing plants NCL has planted a total of more than 2.43 residents. He said all senior to tide over the COVID-19 disaster. The min- health workers could fight and save precious Jail in Kanpur. were distributed. This ambitious cam- crore trees in 5,854 hectares in overbur- doctors should regularly take ister appealed to those who could afford to lives. He said as per the medical college require- The inspection was con- paign organised by the Union Ministry den (OB) dumps and field areas so far. rounds of the hospital without enquire from the medical college of its ment, V-70 (multipara monitor 12.1”), syringe ducted by DLSA Kanpur sec- of Coal was launched by Union Home During the programme NCL management fail. requirments for life-saving equipment and pump, Bipap S/TC series model N 1061x1, retary Aishwarya Pratap Singh Minister Amit Shah. It was also attend- ensured the maintenance of social dis- Dubey also directed the then donate it generously so that lives could be Ventura mask and many more equipment through Google meet and ed by Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, tancing. In order maintain ecological system of health officials to increase 80 saved. worth of Rs 10 lakh were donated to the neu- WhatsApp video call as the jail Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi. In view of the NCL region and conservation and promotion beds at Rama Medical Centre, Addressing a gathering at the collectorate, roscience department of the medical college. premises was under wide con- coronavirus pandemic the programme was of regional flora and fauna, traditional plants, and of Level-2 Covid care cen- Asfad said it was the proper care of the med- Others present on the occasion included tainment zone. conducted through video-conferencing in which including bamboo, neem, amla, teak, mango, tres to 300. He said 30 more ical authorities that he had battled between life GSVM Medical College Principal Dr RB Kamal, The DLSA secretary inter- all the projects of NCL and subsidiaries of Coal guava and many others were planted apart from beds were being increased in and death and emerged successful. He said the CMO Dr AK Mishra, Red Cross Society acted with the jail superinten- India were connected through e-medium. distribution of saplings of fruit-bearing plants Kanshi Ram Hospital. credit for this went to the doctors and para- Secretary RK Saffad and several others doctors dent, jailer and some jail Home Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation like mango, pomegranate, lemon, amla, papaya, The additional chief secre- medics. and officials. inmates of the women and stone of NCL’s Bina eco park by electronic means guava, banana, blackberry and jackfruit. tary said discussion were on child barracks and made them with IMA-Kanpur to strength- aware of the precautions to be ## en the referral system with the positive patients would now be provide 10 ambulances. Dr Mishra said with 61 taken for protection from support of private nursing treated with Remedesivir and COVID-19 patients being dis- COVID-19. The jail adminis- QDPI@@S I@XT T@SWD8@ 2 )'. ADRM (Operations) SPS homes. He said currently there Tocilizumab and these medi- **, = charged from hospitals, 1,648 tration was directed to ensure Yadav, senior divisional engi- 8PSS@TQPI9@IU $( 1+#0 were 200 surveillance teams cines were being provided in infected persons had been the supply of clean masks, RM of Varanasi division of neer (Coordination) Rajiv and their number had been sufficient quantities. cured in the city so far. He said soaps and sanitisers to the DNER Vijay Kumar Panjiar Agrawal, station manager (NR, wo accused, Amit Maurya now raised to 400 so that more He said currently rapid Kanpur Nagar reported 1,552 active cases were under- inmates and to ensure regular inaugurated a planta- Varanasi Jn) Anand Tand Radhakrishna, were sampling could be done regu- antigen test was being carried 112 more coronavirus infec- going treatment in the city. cleaning of the jail premises. tion programme in the Mohan, assistant divi- arrested by the Bansgaon police larly. out at 22 places in Kanpur tions on Friday. Chief Medical The CMO said with six Singh said pamphlets were vacant land of NR in sional municipal engi- from Unwal town in connec- Dubey said rapid antigen Nagar and it was being Officer Dr Anil K Mishra said more Covid deaths, the death also distributed to the jail front of Officers’ neer NK Pathak and tion with an attempt to murder test was being increased and a increased to 50 places. 112 more people tested posi- toll stood at 162 on Friday inmates, giving them informa- Colony, Lahartara by some other officers by case along with a pistol and a target of 1,500 tests per day had The additional chief secre- tive for coronavirus in the city evening. He said 1,378 sam- tion about COVID 19 and the maintaining social dis- maintaining social dis- cartridge late on Thursday been set. tary said the IMA and private during the past 24 hours, push- ples were collected in the city, precautions to be taken. tance here on tance. On the occasion night. They were produced in He said all coronavirus nursing homes had agreed to ing the tally to 3,362 cases. 950 from surveillance areas. Thursday. Apart from about 200 saplings were the court on Friday from where DRM other officers planted and later the they were sent to jail. Jitendra of The Kanpur Zoological who also planted officers of NER and NR Godsaira was shot at and Gardens was giving finishing saplings were ADRM discussed the plan for wounded near Bahorwa village touches to its biggest lepi- NR Ravi P Chaturvedi, ADRM beautification and preservation a few days ago. A case was reg- C $ "" # dopterarium inside. The key (Infra) NER Praveen Kumar, of abandoned railway land. istered against them by his father. person behind this was Prof Peter Swet from, Butterfly Research Centre, Uttrakhand #*"!"+" & and soon it will have research " " # " scholars working on umpteen 8PSS@TQPI9@IU *), block pramukhs and chair- and told him about his efforts projects. The butterfly park men, zila panchayat, to make made for water preservation in =.3'4 Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, exported to Africa, Europe also dependent on China for was nearly ready and once it got video conferencing was people aware of the importance the village. Dayal said that Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. and Russia. basic chromium, basic chrome, the sanction from the govern- Aconducted with UP Chief of water in their lives and Pandey elaborated on bound- otivated by Prime UP Dyes & Chemical Chemical trader Gulshan sodium sulphide and textile ment it would be thrown open Minister Yogi Adityanath on encourage them to save it for ary in the field and trees there. MMinister Narendra Modi’s Merchants Association gener- Dhupar said they were com- finishing chemicals. The for the people as well. Wednesday. The closing cere- He also requested the CM for Make in India campaign, al secretary RK Saffar said pelled to buy chemicals used in monthly consumption of basic This was informed by mony of Groundwater Week adoption of a similar model for Kanpur, which was hitherto there were 40 chemical manu- manufacturing medicines from chromium and basic chrome in Assistant Director, CSA was organised through a webi- preserving water in the state. dependent on chemicals facturing units in the city pro- China. He said the problem the city is around 400 MT each, University of Agriculture and nar in the state. This said by Commissioner said that CM imported from China, is all set ducing goods by strictly fol- could be solved by inviting sodium sulphide and textile Technology, Dr Arvind Singh Commissioner also discussed the declining to become self-reliant in cater- lowing the European stan- global leaders to set up their finishing chemicals is between on Tuesday. He said the lepi- Chitrakootdham division groundwater level and sought ing to the demand of local dards. project in India. 70-100 MT each. dopterarium was spread over Gaurav Dayal said while talk- suggestions from them for leather industry to a large Chemical manufacturer It may be recalled that dif- Prior to lockdown, local two hectares of land and ing to ‘The Pioneer’ on increasing it to ensure sufficient extent. Prem Manohar Gupta said ferent types of chemical are industrialists were able to meet housed over 3000 flowering Thursday. He said that ‘Jal hai their survival. Dayal said that storage of water. Dayal said that The local chemical manu- with the increase in production used to manufacture rubber, around 40-50 per cent require- plants. He said 25 special vari- to kal hai’ (If water is there, DM Amit Singh Bansal, CDO CM had made an appeal to save facturers are now capable to capacity, local chemical buyers paint, plastic, textile and leather ment of the city. But after the ety of flowers which attracted there is future). Dayal said Harishchandra, EEs, water and check its wastage by meet around 80 per cent were not dependent on China products. So far, the chemicals, boycott of Chinese products, the butterflies the most were that while addressing the webi- Groundwater and Minor irri- all means. He said that a unan- requirement of leather indus- any more. including titanium dioxide, the city industrialists have already attracting butterlies. nar CM emphasised on saving gation and a progressive farmer imous decision was taken in the try. Over 70 types of chemical Chemical industrialist SK berium sulphate, zinc oxide increased the production of He said the lepidopterarium water to ensure survival of of Jakhani village Uma Shankar webinar to ensure quality work are being manufactured in the Pandey said efforts were on to active, heat stabliser and metal- chemicals to around 80 per was in fact an enclosed butter- creatures and human beings on Pandey participated in the under Atal Bhujal Yojana. city units, while the require- produce chemical in huge lic stearates, were being import- cent, which is likely to meet 100 fly habitat where hundreds of earth. Dayal said that CM webinar. Dayal said that pro- Dayal said that CM had issued ment of a few categories of quantity at cheaper cost. He ed from China. per cent demand of local indus- different butterfly species lived made an appeal to gram prad- gressive farmer Uma Shankar instructions to officials to save chemicals is being met by said chemicals were also being The city industrialists were try in next few months. and breed in a very natural, yet hans, progressive farmers, Pandey interacted with CM water in the district. controlled environment. ' ) =1, + :+ 8PSS@TQPI9@IU $( 1+#0 minating there at Nakaha jun- employees the Railways runs gle. The work of doubling of schemes like ‘Premchand or ensuring smooth train Gorakhpur-Nakaha rail sec- Award’ for story, novel, drama < < > Fmovement the North tion had been started in and other prose literature in Eastern Railway the work of October 2018. Under this pro- Hindi and ‘Maithilisharan Hundreds of Congressmen performed ‘shraddha’ and ‘tarpan’ developing infrastructure for ject three stabling lines between Gupta Award’ for poetry/ ghaz- in Kanpur for the allegedly collapsed law and order and rising operational facilities is contin- level crossings 3 and 4 includ- al collection. Entries are invit- crime in Uttar Pradesh at Sarsaiya ghat on Friday. Congress city uously being carried out by the ing 1,00,000 cubic metres of ed for the base year 2019, president Har Prakash Agnihotri said the objective of perform- North Eastern Railway (NER) soil work, one small bridge and CPRO PK Singh said. Only ing ‘shraddha’ and ‘tarpan’ was to appease the divine entities to administration. In the sequence two gate lodge are to be con- serving railway personnel are bestow happiness on the people of UP by restoring law and order between Domingarh- structed. Along with it the eligible to participate under this in the state so that the citizens lived without any fear. Gorakhpur-Gorakhpur Cantt - extension of platform number scheme. The book should be Gorakhpur-Kusamhi third line 1 of Nakaha Jungle up to 100 the original work of the author ; < and Gorakhpur-Nakaha Jungle metres towards Maniram and or poet. The book should gen- doubling project work is being raising from medium to high erally not be less than 100 The Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University at Kanpur has done. The 21.15 km-long pro- level, raising platforms number pages. Under the base year decided to start online classes for BTech, BSc, BBA, pharmacy, ject was approved in the year 2 and 3 to a higher level, 305- 2019 the writing or publication health sciences and other branches through video lectures. The 2016-17 at an estimated cost of metre-long new line between work of the book should have lectures will be uploaded on the university’s website so that stu- 186.85 crore. Under it 5.5-km- platforms number 2 and 3 been completed between the dents may learn at their ease. CSJMU Vice-Chancellor Prof long doubling work of towards Maniram New line, 1 period from January 1, 2017, to Neelima Gupta said the university was trying its best to make Gorakhpur-Nakaha forest rail FOB and PP shelter and work December 31, 2019. The last classes more interactive through online tools. She said the record- section is in progress, said of electrification and stabling date for sending entries to the ed lectures would prove very beneficial for the students. Chief Public Relations Officer line etc are included. So far Rajbhasha Department, NER, (CPRO) Pankaj Kumar Singh. 60,000 cubic metre of soil work Gorakhpur, is August 14 this < On completion of this doubling has been completed. Work is in year. For any other information project, rail movement will progress on small bridge No.1. Rajbhasha department, NER, Economic growth is an imperative for development but it become very convenient. As a The bottom slab and wall have Gorakhpur can be contacted. It affects all of us unevenly. Some race ahead, some lag behind. In result of this doubling goods been made. The construction may be pointed out here that an ideal world, the gap between those getting richer and those transportation from Nakah of gate lodge on level crossing many railwaymen of NER have not would not increase indefinitely. But it seems that the gap is Jungle goods shed will get a No.1 is in progress. Pre-casting made their own special place in getting wider and worrisome. Is that inevitable? How should pub- new dimension. With this of RCC platform wall has been many genres of literature like lic policy respond to it? To answer these questions, a webinar is increasing traffic pressure at done and fixing work is in prose and poetry/ ‘ghazal’ writ- being organised by IIT, Kanpur from 5 to 6 pm on Saturday. Gorakhpur Junction will also progress. ing. Many of their books have Aditya Birla Group president and chief economist Ajit Ranade decrease. It will be also easy to ENTRIES INVITED: In been included under this will shed more light on these debatable topics of economic growth # #$ & 2 place the rakes of trains start- order to encourage literary tal- scheme of the Ministry of and income inequality. ing from Gorakhpur and ter- ent and interest of railway Railways in the past years. !" # # 8 0'"/!&0 !# " A @ 0 3 A A !!B7:!((5 ! " ( % 5 : ?9 ' 3 S P Q !
! ! ! " ' beginning of this piece as imped- + 3 ' ing the fight against climate ! 3 - ' # change — the lack of will on the 3 " part of governments and people to take effective preventive action. - ' 3 Governments are constrained + 3 by groups whose incomes and ' profits are going to be reduced by ' S the implementation of climate 2 3 change measures as well as the ! compulsion of having to decide . + 3 #S ! among diverse demands on their he COVID-19 pandem- resources. People are generally 3 - ! ic has sidelined the issue hostage to their existing ways of " $ $ of climate change. This life. This applies especially to the # ! ! can have very serious elite, who decide on policies ! consequences given that and measures in every society theT matter had been receiving far and who enjoy all the comforts ' + ! from adequate attention even before — like air conditioning, which is # the virus began its global surge. Two highly polluting, and conve- ! things have been impeding progress. niences that present technology- First, leaders like US President powered civilisation has brought 3 - P Q . Donald Trump and President Jair them. $ S #S Bolsonaro of Brazil are known to be The answer lies in develop- 2 # dismissive of the environmental ing and introducing non-pollut- threat. The second is a lack of will ing technologies relating to heat- *@# ) on the part of governments and ing/cooling, transportation, cul- 3 # @ people to take effective preventive tivation, construction and all ' $ action. other human activities. The A recent report in The New money and effort needed have to # + 3 York Times, (last updated on July 15) be forthcoming, the COVID-19 3 ! by Nadja Popovich, Livia Albeck- pandemic and the disruption ' 3 A75878 Ripka and Kendra Pierre-Louis, caused by it notwithstanding. It cites a New York Times analysis, is important to recall here that the 5B ' 3 ! based on research by Harvard and Paris Agreement on climate $ Columbia law schools and other change, signed on December 12, #S - sources, saying that the Trump 2015, calls for holding the administration has officially increase in global average tem- *@# #S * # reversed, revoked or otherwise perature to well below two degree " rolled back nearly 70 environmen- Celsius above the pre-industrial- $ # ! tal rules and regulations. More ing of which has been a potent waste disposal, though technol- the development aid model. revolution level and to try to limit than 30 other rollbacks are works in cause of air pollution. The insti- ogy is taking care of it through Under former President Barrack the temperature increase to 1.5 $ 5B5 - ! progress. tutional structures, management its re-processing and re-cycling Obama, the US had pledged degree Celsius above it, stating ABB! . # A report by Sarah Gibbens in and/or administrative proce- to generate nuclear power. three billion dollars to the Green that this would significantly $ the National Geographic, published dures, communication systems The major fear, of course, is Climate Fund — a global reserve reduce the risks and impact of cli- on February 1, 2019, mentions 15 and, in more recent times, infor- of the spread of radiation through fund created to, among other mate change. The Special Report * # $ important decisions by the Trump mation transfer and processing, accidents like the ones that things, help developing countries on Global Warming of 1.5°C, # $ administration that would adverse- have all been based on this form occurred at the Three-Mile invest in renewable and low- released by the , S S ly impact the environment. The list, of energy utilisation. Island in the US in 1979, emission technologies. A sum of Intergovernmental Panel on " which starts with the US withdraw- Clearly, the pattern of fuel Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986 one billion dollars had already Climate Change (IPCC) at al from the Paris Climate use has to change. Of course, the and Fukushima Daiichi in Japan been given during his tenure in Incheon, South Korea, on # # 5; - *@# CA . Agreement, includes decisions that use of fossil-based fuel cannot be in 2011. Clearly, one has to pro- office. Trump has pledged no October 7, 2018, makes the chill- . ( ;C would undo measures to ensure given up immediately. It has to be ceed very carefully and slowly in money to the fund. ing statement that at the current " $ $ 1 clean power and fuel, prevent air gradually reduced and alternative generating and harnessing The question of funds is par- rate, the global mean temperature pollution and protect wildlife. forms of energy have to be har- nuclear power. Indeed, what one ticularly important in respect of is likely to rise to the 1.5-degree - * P! Besides, the Trump administration nessed. Hydro electricity is a safe needs is a mix in generation pat- the introduction of technologies mark sometime between 2030 Q - 9 has opened up public land to busi- bet but its generation is limited terns to cater to diverse con- to reduce emissions. An exam- and 2052. . ! ness and dropped climate change by the availability of dam sites sumption demands with local ple is the Carbon Capture and The world has already from the list of national security and water. The world has taken variations. Solar panels, for exam- Storage technology, which warmed one degree Celsius since - *@# $ threats. Bolsonaro’s policies regard- baby steps towards the utilisation ple, have already begun provid- focusses on securing and storing the industrial revolution. Hence, 0 - $ ' ' ing de-regulation of economic activ- of solar and wind (through ing household power. carbon dioxide emissions before it is really a question of another # - ) - ity and tax cuts to encourage FDI windmills) power. Even though The mix will have to be dif- they are released into the atmos- half degree. Further, the report are liable to severely damage the the potential of both are yet to be ferent for different countries and phere. Although it is still in its clearly indicates that warming, " $ S environment and devastate the fully grasped, it is doubtful even regions, depending on the early stages, successful pilot pro- even if limited to 1.5 degrees " ' 3 lives of Brazil’s indigenous commu- whether they can by themselves nature of power demand. This jects offer hope of developing and Celsius, would not reduce the ' S P ! nities. meet the steady, gargantuan will require planning at the inter- implementing it on a large scale. risks and impact of climate As to the lack of will to take pre- increase in global energy national, national and regional Some countries are committed to change. Sea levels will continue Q P Q ' ventive action against climate demands that will continue. levels and also huge amounts of implementing variations of it to rise beyond 2100, threatening $ - * ' # change, one must begin by recog- This leaves one with nuclear investment for which the devel- and both bilateral and multilat- coastal ecosystems and infra- 7*'#8 - $ - nising that the task here is vast and energy. It produces zero-carbon oping countries would require eral cooperation is under way. structure. Flooding, drought and daunting, requiring basic and trans- emission as it is generated assistance. The World Bank has One, however, has still to wait extreme weather events will . formational changes in the pattern through nuclear fission and increased climate-related spend- and watch as implementing it on wreak havoc on communities *@# $ # of development followed by most requires less land to produce ing and the United Nations a large scale can be expensive around the globe. Many species 3 - S $ countries since the industrial revo- more electricity than any other Environment Programme beside offering few obvious eco- will continue to be driven toward lution in the second half of the 18th clean air source. The second is (UNEP) has set climate change nomic benefits. extinction and marine ecosys- @ ' AA - *@# - # century. Whether in the form of important at a time when find- as a priority in its capacity- Meeting the costs of imple- tems could face “irreversible $ - steam produced by burning coal or ing land for establishing power building efforts. These efforts are menting such technologies, loss.” The is long and written on " *@# 3 electricity generated by coal-based plants often prompts mass constrained, however, by fund- indeed of all measures against cli- the wall. Humankind will ignore thermal power plants, diesel or protests against land acquisi- ing, that is not commensurate mate change, will require polit- it at its own peril. petrol combustion, it has been dri- tion, particularly in India. Against with the scale of the challenge as ical will. This takes us back to the (The writer is Consultant "" ven by fossil-based fuel, the burn- this, there is still a problem of well as by deeper challenges in second factor — identified at the Editor, The Pioneer, and author) % % 9 % O = 2 " * ! I( J$?E068 D 4 > O $ " " . ! " " 0 O $ 31 . + O $ $ KI J $ "" " . ! 5! )!2!5 @5 !@5!5 A ! C 8": @ !5 K4 ( K K& 3 K. ) ' 3 # + 3 shocking that in Uttar Pradesh, , 45 * ! a doctor attempted to rape a patient who tested positive for ! Sir — The Defence Ministry’s & 9 '( Corona. The incident will remain " . .S 3 decision to grant Permanent a blot on the medical fraternity. Commission (PC) to women ? "6; "6, Further, this isn’t the first officers in the Indian Army is time that an incident of sexual ) $ ! welcome. In effect, this means L assault has been reported from - 6 a recognition of the sterling role ( O a hospital during a pandemic. In + . women have played and contin- Maharashtra, a 25-year-old ue to play — shoulder to shoul- 3 & COVID-19 patient was arrested der with their male counter- " for allegedly raping a woman in 3 parts — for the security of the a quarantine facility. Ours is a " 3 nation. It will now be interest- " "" > L country where no place is safe for M + $ 3 738 3 ing to see how many women women. Not even a hospital. reach top positions. & -77< $ 2 " 66 9,5 I Shruti Bansal TKM Kumbalamchuvattil > <,9, 3 00J ?&$ Via email . ' S Muvattupuzha L ( $ Q . 9,. $ ( E "
3 . ! Sir — The Government has 3 Sir — Many global firms have taken the right decision to put invested in Jio in recent months. '( 565; ?&$ the Amarnath yatra on hold in :; 3 ) 3 These investments are due to two ?$ I?$J O view of the pandemic. In this < . ! reasons: One, the large cus- ?.($ 6:7; 1 $ manner, we can at least prevent -'-6 tomer base that Jio has. Two, the 9:< ?1 569 52 " further cases of Coronavirus lack of personal information 7;6<68 ?$ 69 <8: and can focus on treating the * law in India. Facebook, existing patients. Prevention is 3 Instagram and WhatsApp are better than cure. Pilgrimage can .S 5= < 3 already interconnected and now the Government hasn’t approved knows how else our personal resume in healthy times. And Google and Jio are also connect- it yet, after a while, it might give data will be used. It is a big con- divinity is in the mind. 3S . ed with them. All these platforms the go-ahead. cern. The Government should Jatin Singhal < have our personal information. Already, Facebook and other introduce laws to protect person- Sir — Ever since the Coronavirus Via email 3 ! We also know that firms have been accused of min- al information. pandemic has been upon us, we WhatsApp is going to start its ing users’ personal data for Harshal Suresh Desale have hailed the doctors as war- & )' 5 . own e-payment system. Though political campaigns. No one Pune riors, equivalent to god. It was )!!56!!5B1)9@1 !" # # 9 0'"/!&0 !# /!#" # 9 < )&)+* + "/ < $ $ 9 #< #< < 9 $ = " L ; L ; < "+ > < " " . ? +
5 @9 65 . ! ! + ( 5 5 % % 5 ) * ! . ) DB ) E 7 AF5 8 . ) ( A:BBB $ C $ ! . - ) . ) $ - ) ) * ! AB5F CF= ) 7)# 8 ! 5F; ( . ;4 )# + 3(2.,!5; ) . he nation commemorates Kargil Vijay Diwas . every year on July 26 to recount the sacrifice 6 .! Tand martyrdom of our armed forces that - ) brought laurels to the nation by defeating a deceit- - ! ful and untrustworthy neighbour of ours during the ! ! Kargil War of 1999. It is celebrated to honour the sac- rifices of our brave soldiers, who laid down their lives 3 on the lofty heights of Kargil on the frontlines to secure an unparalleled victory in the annals of mil- " # ! itary history. The war, fought mainly in the uncom- ) 3 ! promising climate of the upper Himalayas, saw the ! raw courage of Indian soldiers assaulting uphill, . ! unmindful of enemy fire and dislodging them after a tough hand-to-hand fight. They regained our lost ) territory which the enemy forces had occupied sur- reptitiously, throwing to wind the unsigned conven- ) tion between the two armies of maintaining status quo in the traditional gaps along the Line of . < ! Control (LoC). But for the raw courage and auda- ' cious bravery of our soldiers and young officers, his- /34?+1/& ) tory would have been different as the unscrupulous 0?/.?1/. !. " ! enemy had succeeded in taking us by surprise. Sadly //+' ) " ! enough, what happened in Kargil is being replicat- .&/1D ! ! )$( ed, albeit on a much larger scale, across the trans- 34?$/.(.0 ' Himalayan region in Eastern Ladakh along the Line 0/&.?. 3 " 3 1 ! of Actual Control (LAC). /3/4&./. * We were surprised then and we have been sur- ?%%$/?%/ ) . prised now. Intelligence, Surveillance and enable the armed forces to meet their quite vast and the enemy has many vul- never operated earlier. We were never con- Reconnaissance (ISR ) remain our major weakness. .?.1 immediate and critical needs. Today, our nerabilities. The possibility of collusion sulted on targets and never apprised of . ! Since the war was limited and the LoC was much /$'4D armed forces are well-equipped with lat- between China and Pakistan cannot be strike missions. Occasionally we would ! smaller in length, though there were shortages, the 0E?4 est platforms, smart munitions, UAVs, mis- ruled out completely, though Islamabad hear aircraft north-east of Zozila and see " ! ) # crunch was not felt. The amassing of Bofors guns and &/.?1??= siles and so on. We have definitely made does not have the capability to launch such some puffs around some features. Though, - 1# ( ! ammunition played a crucial role in enabling .?E1 a qualitative jump but numerically we are an offensive for the time being. Where we the stories of bombs/rockets hitting our " infantry assaults. The Indian Air Force (IAF), too, 3/$?% still short of fighting a sustained two-front were holding the entire frontage with a own troops are exaggerated, it is a fact that ) played a major role though it was not equipped to .?.1 war. Also criticality still exists in our Air brigade then, now we have a full infantry sometimes the munitions would land a few 3 . # - ' fight at those heights with the restriction of not cross- /$'4D Defence and the infantry weapon systems. division with well-sited and hardened ridges away where our troops were ( ing the LoC. India also successfully called the nuclear &.(/&/. The Navy and IAF also have critical gaps defences along the entire length of the LoC. deployed. Fortunately we never had a 3 bluff of Pakistan. A determined political leadership +'/ which need to be filled. Depending on the Similarly, compared to 1962, our defences friendly fire casualty. Equally and impor- . !. made a critical difference. The higher military lead- quality of security we need, a percentage in eastern Ladakh are very strongly held tantly we never saw any target destroyed. ership and higher direction of war left many ques- 0/4/01/E/1 of the GDP (not below 3.5) has to be ear- with adequate reserves and a well-devel- “When we were planning an attack on ) tions to be answered which were subsequently ?%./(4?. marked for the defence budget. oped road and track network. The Kargil Tiger Hill, in order to maintain surprise, 3 " 3 addressed by the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) .?=/. Unlike 1999, when we had just experience has shown us that a ratio of 1:9 the artillery was tasked to fire on distrib- =BB . but unfortunately no heads rolled. Our true homage 31$/)/1? become a nuclear power, today we boast or 1:12 is needed in these heights to launch uted targets but the IAF kept hitting Tiger 1 1 ) to the martyrs would be to say with certainty and .//0?/..$/ of our triad capability with ICBM capabil- offensive operations. Hill without consulting us. Infuriated, Hq . authority that their sacrifices would not go waste and /$3+1D ity. However, in view of the looming threat, ISR was a weakness then and remains 15 Corps was informed, which also con- , a Kargil-like situation will not be repeated. ?%?3/4?.1 we must review our policy of “No First so even today. Though a lot of structural firmed that they had no knowledge of air - - F 3 # While we can say with confidence that Kargil 2.0 .0$$1 Use.” India has always believed in honour- changes have taken place like the Defence plans.” This should give adequate idea of 0 " will not happen again but while achieving that capa- ./11(/.$/. ing various treaties and agreements but Intelligence Agency (DIA), National the absence of jointness during the last war ) S 1 bility, did we ignore our other neighbour? While we '$ both our neighbours have shown scant Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), we fought. It would be unfair to say that " considered Pakistan as a threat, we continued to treat /44. ) respect for them while threatening us on Defence Image Processing and Analysis there has been no change. Lot of changes China as a challenge. Our political leadership was the LoC/LAC. In the case of Kargil, the Centre (DIPAC), yet the optimal has not for the good have taken place. Joint plan- 1 1 ) ! convinced about averting a conflict with China '.34/0$+1/ plan was made as early as during the Zia been achieved. The problem does not lie ning is quite obvious in the current stand- 1 1 through political and diplomatic outreach. Despite .04 regime. We should have known about it. in the assets but in timely processing and off. Even the idea of theatre commands is 5F5D ' the alarm raised by the Army and other services, the )//4 Thereafter, Pakistan began a proxy war dissemination. The permanent office of the gaining currency. Post-Kargil, two joint 1 ) S . " ! political hierarchy was overconfident of their capa- &'1&?0/ against us. Just prior to Kargil War, it began National Security Advisor (NSA) is meant commands were raised as Strategic Forces 5:B bility to handle China. Like Pakistan, China, too, &'11D/4/0 regular shelling of the national highway, to look into this vital aspect of national Command and Andaman & Nicobar 1 " proved to be treacherous and lulled our leadership 11)//4 linking Kashmir and Ladakh. Our respons- security management but the desired Command. Lately, a Special Forces joint 3 " ) . ! into being friendly because it needed the Indian mar- 7:N- es were mainly defensive and ad-hoc. Pro- level of integration has not taken place. We command has also been raised. 1 ket to become an economic superpower. China all '4E/11.$/ active and punitive responses were absent also need to enhance the capability of oper- Another recommendation of the KRC ( . . the while wanted to be the sole power in Asia but (40.//0/0 due to the fear of an escalation. Pakistan ational and tactical intelligence. In such a was regarding border management. One 5F5D our leadership failed to read the Chinese mind cor- took advantage of it, ignored the under- terrain, with unpredictable and harsh force per border has been implemented. rectly as it did with Pakistan at the time of Kargil. standing about “traditional gaps” and weather, a multi-mode, multi-layered, all- But the question of command and control . 0 While AB Vajpayee had taken a bus ride to Lahore presented us a fait accompli in the form weather, 24x7 surveillance grid is needed. still remains an issue. Particularly, along ) 3 ' in search of peace, its scheming Army Chief Pervez of Kargil incursions. We also need to develop capability to mon- the LAC with China where the Indo-Tibet 0 )' ) + Musharraf was planning the Kargil incursions. It is the same with China. Despite sala- itor the movement of Chinese troops and Border Police (ITBP) has been deployed. ) ) Like any developing nation with a large segment mi-slicing, we continued to appease it. formations to the plateau or towards the There is a divided responsibility between $ 1 ! of the population below the poverty line, we also face Even after Doklam, we failed to wake up. LAC from the Xinjiang Military District. the Army and the ITBP, which has proved * 5F5: the dilemma of butter versus barrel of the gun. Every The net result is the multi-point, well- Mountains do impose certain restric- highly ineffective in the current stand-off. . ) 0 ! Government had to tread a very cautious path while planned incursions in eastern Ladakh with tions but we need to invest more in the Incursions happened under the watch of " ) allocating resources for defence forces. Even during a definite aim of holding out and not vacat- required means. Lack of jointness was a the ITBP and the Army had to come in . Kargil, General Malik, the then chief, had said that ing. Our planners would have known that major lesson from Kargil. Here I would like when the crisis developed. A poor arrange- * * ) “my Army will fight with whatever we have.” our claim of Aksai Chin and Gilgit to quote the first-hand experience of the ment, particularly when we are faced with Immediately after Kargil, unmanned aerial vehicles Baltistan will definitely raise hackles in then Colonel General Staff of 8 Mountain a cunning enemy on the other side. The . (UAVs) and other surveillance equipment were added China because both are very critical to Division, which was moved from the ITBP should be placed under the com- . to the inventory. However, post-Kargil, because of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pet project Valley to dislodge the intruders. “Ever since mand of the Army following the LoC ) ! the Bofors scandal, all major defence contracts were of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). the infamous huff between the then Army model. " ! put on hold. As a result, the country’s armed forces However, our planners, including the and IAF chiefs in the initial stages of the Needless to say the situation then and S . began to suffer not only obsolescence but shortages military, failed to take any preventive and operations, the Army and Air Force never now is quite different. But some of the " . in spares, affecting the battle-readiness of equipment. precautionary measures to thwart the operated in unison. In the first week of lessons learnt during the Kargil War still E . However, the trend was reversed post-2014 and Chinese threat. Once again we are react- June, the IAF recommenced Operation remain unaddressed for which we paid the ) big ticket purchases were made for enhancing the ing. Worried about escalation, we did not Safed Sagar as we were in Operation Vijay. price at Galwan. 7 8 combat efficiency of the forces. Delegation and even exercise the option of quid pro quo. Two standalone operations in a small (The author is a Jammu-based veter- enhancement of financial powers was also done to Now it may be too late though the LAC is mountainous area, where the IAF had an and security and strategic analyst.) , % % 9 s uxuyutqqqv sq xuuyu su vtyuquuyqsuuqutuqtu u )/&' A review of health geographic infor- requested applications of GIS services outbreaks, the spread pattern as well Using GIS functionality such as Ranging from mapping the out- mation system (GIS) literature has as early as February was the as its intensity to be able to implement spatial analytics, mapping and location break source, site selection for treat- $.?) shown that almost 30 per cent of all Coronavirus dashboard. The interac- control, preventative as well as surveil- intelligence, health officials and ment, monitoring supply chains, volumes is focussed on infectious tive maps can locate as well as tally con- lance measures. Government agencies have access to resource location and so on, GIS has disease mapping. This is why one of firmed infections, fatalities and recov- It is an undeniable fact that in confirmed and active cases, fatalities contributed significantly to fighting the our biggest champions in the ongoing eries, along with graphs detailing the order to identify at-risk populations in and recoveries. Since COVID-19 virus and speeding up efforts in places fight against COVID-19 is the use of progression of the virus. real-time, public health agencies, pol- impacts demographics in a dispropor- that they are needed the most. GIS. Viewers can see the time and day icymakers as well as administrators tionate manner, such as the elderly and Modern GIS technologies are " 24 COVID-19 is a challenge like no of the most recent data update from need GIS to be able to understand out- those with co-morbidities, mapping based around web tools that improve other in recent times as the virus various sources, which include author- break patterns and plan targetted criteria such as social vulnerability, age data sharing and offer real-time infor- . he relationship between map- spread strikingly fast from China to the itative bodies such as the WHO and intervention such as the evaluation of and other factors have been helping in mation that can aid critical decision- ping systems and healthcare rest of the world. For comparison, one the Centre for Disease Control and available facilities and increasing their monitoring at-risk groups across making. A comprehensive GIS plat- Thas existed for centuries. In can look at how MERS took about 30 Prevention. If you look at India, the healthcare capacities. Apart from this, regions. Based on the available data, form can support the entire process of " " fact, the earliest recorded map visual- months to infect a thousand people, National Centre for Disease Control is there is also the need for effective com- agencies can take a look at the relevant disease surveillance, preparedness and isation goes back to 1694 and the SARS took around four months and the source of authoritative data via the munication amid all the supporting area of interest such as hospitals, response. With the world now shift- plague containment in Italy. Over the the Coronavirus reached that figure in application programme interface agencies as well as citizens so that there location of the cases being reported, ing to a new normal, epidemiologists last 300 years, the value of maps as a just 48 days. When a disease has the (API). Epidemiologists are utilising can be a coordinated response to the areas that have been affected, capaci- expect that outbreaks like this could ) communication tool for the under- capacity to travel so quickly, informa- GIS to map disease occurrence mea- crisis. Since location is the common ties as well as key demographic data happen more frequently in the future. standing and tracking of infectious dis- tion, too, has to keep up and in fact, sured against multiple parameters denomination between all these, GIS in order to create strategies that can aid Hence, GIS will continue to be crucial " eases, be it the yellow fever, cholera, the outpace it. This is the reason why map- such as demographics, environment, provides the capability to create a com- in the descriptive, predictive as well as for tackling viruses. 1918 influenza pandemic or the new- based dashboards have become crucial. geographies, past occurrences and so mon operating picture that will allow prescriptive stages of combating (The writer is co-founder and age MERS-CoV, has only heightened. So much so that among the top 10 on, to understand the origin of future multi-agency collaboration. COVID-19. director of a technology company) I J !" # # 10 " " " %(