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Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer HYDERABAD, SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2021; PAGES 10+16 `5 RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 Published From HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 255 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable www.dailypioneer.com ‘Shocked' IPGA demands P SG denies meeting West Bengal P Show PM image, lotus : P withdrawal of curbs 6 BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari 5 BJP tells state units 10 In brief France begins judicial probe OVERCHARGING COVID TS not to recognise ‘illegal’ Sameer Sharma Private hospitals appointed AP's ILEG return Rs 1 crore AP projects, resolves KCR Vice-Chairperson into Rafale deal with India PNS n HYDERABAD PNS n HYDERABAD hief Secretary-rank IAS officer of PNS n NEW DELHI Describing the Pothireddypadu 1985 batch, Sameer Sharma, The Telangana Health project as ‘illegal’, Telangana Chief C was on Saturday appointed the A French judge has been appoint- Department has made nearly 50 Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Vice-Chairperson and Member- ed to lead a "highly sensitive" judi- hospitals refund the amounts Saturday said that his government Secretary of Institute of Leadership, cial investigation into alleged "cor- they had overcharged patients would not recognise it as the proj- Excellence and Governance (ILEG) of ruption and favouritism" in the Rs for Covid treatment during the ect was being constructed in vio- Andhra Pradesh. Sharma was previ- 59,000 crore Rafale fighter jet deal second wave. lation of the stay order given by the ously the Director General of Indian with India, French investigative So far, Rs 1 crore has been National Green Tribunal. Institute of Corporate Affairs in the website Mediapart reported. refunded by errant private hos- “Moreover, there was no allocation Government of India. On April 23, the Following the development, pitals to the kin of patients for of Krishna water to the project,” State government requested the Congress chief spokesperson excess billing. The interven- KCR told a meeting to discuss the Centre to repatriate him to the parent Randeep Surjewala on Saturday tion by the Health Department “illegal” projects being built by the Pothireddypadu project as illegal. cadre following which the urged Prime Minister Narendra has saved these patients from Government of AP, the The Telangana government would Appointments Committee of the Modi to come forward and order being ripped off by 50 corporate Rayalaseema lift irrigation and not accept these projects under any (Union) Cabinet approved the repatria- a Joint Parliamentary Committee hospitals. other such projects, hydel power circumstances, it was resolved. tion on June 25.Consequently, Chief (JPC) probe into the Rafale deal. In the first wave, Rs 3 crore generation in Telangana and other It was also resolved that the Secretary Aditya Nath Das issued an "Corruption in the Rafale deal The Mediapart said deal as well as a complaint filed by was reimbursed as part of excess issues. Telangana government would order on Saturday posting Sharma to has come out clearly now. The French NGO Sherpa that spe- billing. Over the past one Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, insist on the AP Government to ILEG. An expert in urban development stand of the Congress party and the probe into the cialises in financial crime. month the refunds have been Irrigation Department Special use only the surplus waters in River affairs, Sharma was earlier Director of Rahul Gandhi has been vindicat- inter-governmental "The highly sensitive probe into just about 28 lakhs. By May 27 Chief Secretary Rajat Kumar, Krishna in spite of en bloc alloca- National Smart Cities Mission. ed today after the French govern- deal signed in 2016 the inter-governmental deal signed itself, the state had refunded CMO secretary Smitha Sabharwal, tion by Bachawat Tribunal. ment has ordered a probe," he told off in 2016 was formally opened on nearly 72.20 lakh rupees after Irrigation Department Engineer- The TS government would seek reporters at a press conference. was formally opened June 14th," the media report said. people complained of inflated in-Chief Muralidhar Rao, OSD to cancellation of the proposed July Big win for BJP in However, there was no immedi- on June 14. Mediapart journalist Yann bills being slapped by private the Chief Minister Sridhar Rao 9 KRMB tripartite meeting and call UP local body polls, ate reaction from the Indian gov- Philippin, who filed a series of hospitals. Deshpande, CMD of TS Transco for the full board meeting after July ernment or the BJP. reports on the deal, said a first com- A separate team in the Health and TS Genco Prabhakar Rao, 20 with the inclusion of the issues setback for Akhilesh The Mediapart said the probe development on the controversial plaint was "buried" in 2019 by a for- Department has been negotiat- GENCO director (hydel power) raised by Telangana State in the into the inter-governmental deal deal. mer PNF chief. ing with private hospitals to Venkata Rajam, advocate-general agenda. he BJP is set for a massive victory signed in 2016 was formally It said the investigation has been "The judicial investigation was refund the excess charges col- Prasad, Additional Advocate- Telangana would also argue before in local body elections in Uttar opened on June 14. initiated by the national financial finally opened following the reve- lected for treatment of COVID- General Ramachandra Rao and the KRMB meeting to oppose T Pradesh, in a big setback for "A judicial probe into suspected prosecutors' office (PNF). lations of the investigation 19 patients. About 10 days ago, Irrigation Department senior offi- Pothireddypadu and Rayalaseema Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party. The corruption has been opened in The judicial investigation has #RafalePapers of @mediapart and the Health Department capped cials took part. LI projects. It was also decided to BJP has surged ahead with a France over the 7.8-billion-euro been ordered by France's national a new complaint from the treatment charges for The meeting resolved to declare convey Telangana’s agenda to the projection of winning over 60 seats in sale to India in 2016 of 36 Dassault- financial prosecutors' office, follow- @Asso_Sherpa. Covid-19 and black fungus. the Pothireddypadu project and KRMB immediately. the zila panchayat chairperson election built Rafale fighter aircraft," the ing Mediapart's fresh reports in the Rayalaseema lift irrigation where 75 seats are at stake. Mr Mediapart reported on the latest April of alleged wrongdoings in the 2 2 scheme which lifts water into the 2 Yadav's party is forecast to win only six seats. In comparison, back in the same election in 2016, Mr Yadav's party took 60 of the 75 seats. Those analysing the elections, however, say KTR EFFECT Covaxin 65.2% Lakhs of vaccination slots vacant in TS the local body polls are unlikely to be NAVEENA GHANATE lakh doses were given on the pre- option for advance booking. The any indicator of which direction the Centre okays vaccine- effective against n HYDERABAD vious two days respectively. guidelines changed often, adding to wind will blow in the assembly election Walk-in slots were not available uncertainty, it was pointed out. next year, which will also serve as an Although the State is under pres- in urban areas; they were confined Especially in government cen- ultimate test for Chief Minister Yogi testing lab in Hyderabad Delta variant sure to effectively use the vaccines to rural areas. Some citizens com- tres, pre-booking option was not Adityanath of the BJP. allocated to it, lakhs of vaccination plained that they had to return as available. Sources pointed that this PNS n HYDERABAD PNS n HYDERABAD slots continue to be available (that the staff mandated registration on could be due to the lack of aware- Navi Mumbai civic is, not availed) in Telangana. the portal. Moreover, ness on the availability of the slots body vaccinates sex The Centre has sanctioned funds Bharat Biotech's Covaxin has Over the past three days, citizens also com- as many people were from the PM Cares Fund for set- demonstrated 77.8 per cent effec- Telangana has released 3 plained that the slots unfamiliar with the workers ting up a vaccine-testing laborato- tiveness against symptomatic lakh vaccine slots every day, opened only on availability of vac- he Navi Mumbai Municipal ry in Hyderabad. Union Minister COVID-19 and 65.2 per cent pro- after opening the drive to the same day cine for those in Corporation held a of State for Home Affairs G Kishan tection against the new Delta vari- inoculate those in the age and that the age group of Reddy thanked Prime Minister ant. The company on Saturday said group of 18-44 years. there was no 18-44 years. T special anti-coronavirus vaccination camp for sex workers in Narendra Modi for sanctioning it concluded the final analysis of As on Saturday, nearly 50 Moreover, find- the city, a civic official said on funds for setting up the vaccine Covaxin efficacyfrom Phase3 trials. lakh citizens in the 18-44 ing the locations Saturday.The camp was organised on testing lab here. The efficacy analysis demon- years cohort have been has become a Friday as part of the civic body's Earlier, TS Minister of Industries testing lab in Hyderabad. strates Covaxin to be 93.4 per cent inoculated. However, not tough task for attempt to cover the neglected KT Rama Rao had written to the The setting up of the new labo- effective against severe sympto- on one day the number of citizens. Not all sections of the society under the central government thrice seeking ratory is a big step towards the matic COVID-19 cases while safe- doses administered PHCs have vaccination programme, sanction of a vaccine-testing lab- comprehensive development of ty analysis shows adverse events touched 2 lakh.