y k y cm IMAGE MAKEOVER HEART PROBLEMS INDIA FACE QATAR Actor Raima Sen says the idea behind Israel’s health ministry has said Pfizer’s Covid-19 Blue Tigers take on Qatar in a second-leg game shooting some bold photos for Instagram vaccine has caused heart ailments to many of the joint World Cup and Asian Cup qualifiers in Doha, today was to reinvent her image LEISURE | P2 recipients INTERNATIONAL | P10 SPORTS | P12 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 63 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | THURSDAY, JUNE 3 | 2021 12 PAGES | `5.00 Naveen against fight for vax ODISHA CM WANTS DECENTRALISATION OF VACCINATION PROGRAMME TO PREVENT 3RD WAVE POST NEWS NETWORK Bhubaneswar, June 2: Odisha Chief HIGHEST SPIKE Minister Naveen Patnaik wrote IN DAILY DEATHS Wednesday to all his counterparts in BHUBANESWAR: Odisha reported Special package for India and urged them to build a con- Wednesday 40 more deaths due to sensus over procurement of Covid- Covid-19. It is the highest number 19 vaccines by the Centre for distri- of casualties in a single day so far. bution among the states. In his own way, The new fatalities pushed the toll PVTGs announced Patnaik informed the other states to 2,831, a Health department IRREGULAR by MANJUL that all will be better off if they are official said. The state also POST NEWS NETWORK will be awarded an incen- in agreement regarding the procure- registered 8,399 new positive tive of `1,000 per month for ment of vaccines and not fight against cases of Covid-19 taking the total Bhubaneswar, June 2: four months. Moreover, one another. caseload to 7,82,131. The districts With Covid-19 turning out health kits and life insur- In the letter, Patnaik wrote that no of Angul, Khurda, Cuttack and to be a cause of concern, ance coverage has been pro- state is safe unless all adopt vacci- Kalahandi reported five fatalities the Odisha government vided for all the field func- nation as topmost priority and ex- each. The active number of cases Wednesday announced a tionaries under micro ecute it on war-footing. “The only way in Odisha now stands at 87,220. P4 special package for the project agencies (MPAs). to protect our people against future particularly vulnerable The government feels that Covid-19 waves and provide them The domestic vaccine manufacturers tribal groups (PVTGs). this scheme will boost the with a hope of survival is vaccina- on the other hand have supply con- Sources in the ST & SC confidence of those work- tion,” Patnaik wrote in the letter straints and are not able to commit Development department ing in tribal areas. that he shared on Twitter. He tagged to supplies required,” the chief min- informed that government Provision of funds has all the chief ministers. “But this ister pointed out. will provide dry rations been created for supporting cannot be a battle among the states Patnaik said that under these cir- worth `2,500 to all Covid-19 isolation centres at village When I grow to compete against each other to cumstances, the best option available affected PVTG households. level and Covid care centres up, I will vote procure vaccines,” Patnaik added. is for the Centre to centrally procure Incentive of `1,400 (`100 at MPA level and dedicated for corona uncle The Odisha chief minister noted vaccines and distribute them among per day) will also be pro- ambulances for emergency that after the Centre announced phase- the states so that the people are vided to all such tribal transport. 3 of the vaccine policy, allowing vac- vaccinated at the earliest. groups who are affected by There are 13 PVTG com- Bijayshree Routray cination for everyone above the age of “At the same time, the execution of Covid-19 for stay in quar- munities of Odisha resid- breathes his last 18 years and opened procurement for the vaccination programme has to be antine centres. ing in 14 districts. the states and private sector, the demand decentralised and states allowed the LIFELINE: A woman gets vaccinated at Unit-IV in the capital City OP PHOTO Similarly, free masks It should be stated here has increased. flexibility to determine their own and sanitisers will be dis- that many tribal groups “Many states have floated global mechanism to ensure universal Patnaik said that he has already further havoc,” he wrote in the letter. tributed to all PVTGs. Door- living in Malkangiri and tenders for vaccine procurement. vaccination,” Patnaik mentioned. raised the matter with the Centre and Patnaik’s letter comes a day after to-door survey and screen- Sundargarh districts had However, it is quite clear that the global “For example, many hilly and rural also spoken to a few chief ministers. Odisha Health Minister Naba Kishore ing will be carried out for initially stayed away for vaccine manufacturers are looking areas cannot access the internet and “I would respectfully suggest that all Das had urged Union Health Minister detection of Covid-19 symp- vaccination. Some of these forward to the Union government for therefore online registration has to state governments should come to a con- Harsh Vardhan to formulate a na- toms, the sources said. groups were not even ready clearances and assurances,” he said. be flexible,” Patnaik added. He also sensus on this issue for early resolution tional-level policy for procurement of The Community to follow Covid-19 guide- “They are unwilling to get into supply said vulnerable tribes can be given of this problem. We should act fast be- vaccine from global manufacturers Resource Persons (CRPs) lines leading to spread of the contracts with the state governments. priority for immunization. fore any third wave comes and creates and supply it to the states. working in PVTG villages pandemic in rural areas. Bhubaneswar: Senior BJD leader DOMINICA GOVT JAJPUR, PURI DISTRICTS TO BENEFIT Bijayshree Routray died at a private hospital here Wednesday, his FLOODPLAINS PROJECTS TO family said. Routray, also a former WANTS CHOKSI `254 crore Nabard aid minister in the Odisha government, was 67. He is survived by two sons BACK IN INDIA and wife. Routray was undergoing CONTINUE DESPITE PROTESTS for rural water projects treatment for post-Covid PRESS TRUST OF INDIA complications at the hospital. “My POST NEWS NETWORK father’s blood pressure fell Dredging can cause huge floods in Cuttack city, say experts New Delhi, June 2: The Government abnormally Wednesday morning of Dominica has told a court there to Bhubaneswar, June 2: The and it could not be revived,” son MANISH KUMAR, OP reject the habeas corpus petition filed National Bank for Bishnubrata said. Routray was on behalf of businessman Mehul Agriculture and Rural elected to the Odisha Assembly six Bhubaneswar, June 2: Despite op- Choksi who had claimed that he was Development (NABARD) times from the Basudevpur seat. position from environmentalists and ex- abducted and forcefully brought to the has sanctioned Rural perts over use of floodplains of Caribbean island nation, local media Infrastructure Development Mahanadi river in Cuttack and other reported, Wednesday. Sources said that Fund (RIDF) of `254 crore for The drinking water SC slams Centre districts for human-related activities and it wants Choksi deported to India setting up mega piped drink- projects will benefit construction, the Odisha government The High Court of Dominica or- ing water supply projects Badachana and over vaccination is determined to go ahead with its plans. dered that Choksi be produced in a mag- in Odisha. Nabard will set Dharmasala blocks in New Delhi: Observing courts Sources said that the Mahanadi flood- istrate’s court to answer charges of up two mega piped drinking Jajpur and Brahmagiri cannot be ‘silent spectators’ when plains will be used to develop parking his illegal entry into the country. The water supply projects, one and Krushnaprasad constitutional rights of citizens are spaces, playgrounds of BOSE and SCB hearing on the habeas corpus peti- of which will be in Jajpur infringed by executive policies, the Medical College and other amenities for tion was adjourned till Thursday, local district and the other in blocks in Puri Supreme Court slammed citizens of Cuttack. Dredging of the RIVERS IN PERIL - II media said. Puri district. The project in Wednesday the Centre’s Covid-19 Mahanadi has already started with River dredging and filling of low lying Environmentalists have pointed out Rejecting Choksi’s submission the Jajpur will cover the water through Functional vaccination policy. The apex court funding from a PSU. It has provided areas on the Mahanadi floodplains are that if floodplains are plundered through prosecution said the habeas corpus Badachana and Dharmasala Household Tape Connection describing the policy as ‘prima funds to the tune of `300 crore. in accordance with law,” an official man-made projects in an indiscriminate petition does not stand as he had ille- blocks, while the one in Puri (FHTC). The supply to the facie arbitrary and irrational’ said The alleged dumping of sand to low from the State Water Resource manner, it will lead to a number of gally entered Dominica and was sub- will facilitate water supply households in the four states and private hospitals were lying areas and utilising it for urban department, said Wednesday. major problems. The threat of urban sequently detained. In case of an ad- to the Brahmagiri and blocks will last for eight charging those in the 18-44 age development have come under the scan- There is however, no clear cut de- flooding will increase manifold. Also verse order, Choksi has the option of Krushnaprasad blocks. hours every day. group while jabs were offered free ner of environmentalists. Officials of marcation of the Mahanadi floodplains loss of trees will lead to climate changes appealing in a higher court.