03.05.21

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday launched the Haryana Engineering Works (HEW) portal to facilitate ease of access and doing business with the government for contractors in the state.

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The contractors desiring to work in various projects of three primary engineering departments of the state namely Public Works Department, Irrigation-and-water”>Irrigation and water Resources Department and Public Health Engineering Department will benefit from this portal.

The portal will enable the contractors desirous of participating in various tenders of these departments to register themselves for the purpose. Every contractor will have to create a profile on it and they would be exempted from bearing Earnest Deposit (EMD) if they provide certain essential details for registration on the portal.

Another important feature of this portal is that contractor’s performance will be evaluated against each completed work by awarding marks and generating dynamic rating for each contractor.

With the Punjabs rural areas registering an alarmingly increase in the positivity rate over the past two weeks, the State Government has launched Mission Fateh 2.0 (corona free village campaign) to contain the spread of the deadly contagion and to ensure COVID-free villages. The campaign would also focus on conducting the sampling or testing at the large level in rural areas.

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For the same, all the Civil Surgeons have been instructed to conduct RAT sampling or testing of every person in the rural areas, while the Community Health Officers (CHOs) have been given the responsibility of monitoring all the patients in Home isolation.

Under the Mission Fateh 2.0, ASHA workers will go door-to-door in every village to check for COVID symptoms such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Pulse oximeters will be provided to all ASHA workers for conducting the survey. The information of suspected person will be immediately shared by ASHA with CHO so that the person can be tested for COVID and necessary treatment as per protocol will be provided to the patient.

Sanitation workers to get Rs 2K as incentive for three months

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All sanitation workers in the (ULBs), including municipal corporations, municipal councils, nagar parishads and nagar panchayats, will be given an incentive of Rs 2,000 per month for April, May and June, 2021, keeping in view the vital Services they are rendering in maintaining hygiene in the urban areas during the Covid-19 pandemic.

CM Jai Ram Thakur urges representatives of urban local bodies to remain in constant contact with the family members of the person in Home isolation

Asks them to ensure that people come forward for test as it has been found that delay in going to hospital leads to deterioration of condition and increase in deaths

Tells them to maintain better coordination with the Health Department to check the spread of the pandemic

Thakur said the elected representatives should also come forward to ensure that in case of unfortunate death of Covid patients, the last RITES of the deceased were performed as per the protocol. He said the State Government was also considering providing PPE kits to health institutions so that the last rites could be performed as per the protocol.

The State Government will import 20 lakh doses of Sputnik V vaccine in the next two months. A committee has been formed for this purpose and the funds have also been arranged. Stating this while addressing the media, chief secretary Om Prakash said that the state is in constant touch with the Centre. The vaccine doses being received now are less than required.

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The State will receive eight lakh and nine lakh doses this month and the next month respectively and that too on the condition that those who have had their first dose should be administered the second dose. He said that the state is also in touch with the major companies in the country to secure Vaccines in addition to the doses being provided by the Centre. Some doses have been received while some more are to be received by the state.

IIT-Kanpur to analyse Covid curve in UP

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked officials to engage the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) for rigorous analysis of the Covid curve in all the 75 districts of the state.

The IIT-K already has been doing such analysis and has made them public. It would do more, as and when, the asked it to do so.

Yogi Adityanath further said the state was now also getting Oxygen from Jamnagar (Gujarat), Durgapur and Barjora (West Bengal) and Rourkela (Odisha) to augment supply.

Jharkhand: Pathalgadi movement resurfaces

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Displaying a replica of the Union law and ministrys 2007 gazette, which notified the provisions of Scheduled areas and signed by former President APJ Abdul Kalam, another tribal leader said, “We demand the State Government to give us our rights. We have decided to install plaques announcing our rights in Ranchi now and we are working on it.”

Notably, Soren in response to a question during the 18th Annual India Conference of the Harvard University held online had termed Pathalgadi as a custom among the Adivasi but said the violent incidents which occurred during theBJPregime in 2017-18 were triggered by anti-social Elements having links with a movement in Gujarat.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar reviews Darbhanga airport development, assures more amenities soon

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The number of flights from Darbhanga airport would be increased and more passenger amenities would be provided soon, chief minister Nitish Kumar announced.

A presentation was made before the CM on the development of Darbhanga airport. Nitish said the airport would be named after the legendary Maithili poet Vidyapati and a resolution to this effect has been unanimously passed by the state assembly.

The CM said the airport whose foundation was laid in 2018 has come as a boon for the Mithilanchal region and other parts of Bihar neighbouring areas. He asked officials to hold talks with the officials of the Authority of India (AAI) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) to develop the Darbhanga airport because it was important for the people of north Bihar and adjoining areas.

Baghel urges FM for financial aid for small, medium bizmen

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Chhattisgarhchief ministerBhupesh Baghel urgedUnionfinance ministerNirmala Sitharamanto provide financial assistance for the small and medium businessmen across state.

ChhattisgarhChamberof Commerce and Industries has demanded certain immediate relief to help them overcome this crisis.

Baghel has stated in the letter that as April is the first month of the financial year 2021-22, the due date for obligations underTDSand TDS Act is scheduled for this month. However, the economic activities in the state have been suspended for Covid-19 containment, because of which the businessmen are finding it difficult to tally their accounts and file returns in the given time period before the due date.

Govt to start free treatment scheme for Covid patients

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Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that a new scheme is being implemented for free treatment of corona patients in the state. Under this, the poor and common people of the state, including even the middle class, will be able to get free treatment of corona in the contracted private hospitals.

Chouhan said that a special package will be given by the to private hospitals under Ayushman Bharat Yojana for the implementation of the scheme. The government will empanel private hospitals for treatment of covid.

So far, 2.42 crore cards have been made under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana in the state, under which 88 percent of the Population has been covered. All of them will be able to get free treatment of corona in government-contracted hospitals. There are currently 328 private hospitals are empanelled under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana in which 23,946 beds are available. On May 5, the state government empanelled 68 private hospitals of the state under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana for the next 3 months.

The government has decided that under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana, if a family member has an Ayushman card, then other members of the family shall also be able to get free treatment. On being admitted to the hospital for treatment of Covid, the collector will arrange for Ayushman card to be made.

The government has increased the rates of Ayushman Bharat package by 40 percent so that private hospitals can treat Covid well under this scheme. These rates include room rent, food, checkups, consultation fee, paramedical fee etc.

The state government will give Rs 5000 as diagnostic advanced to every person who is receiving treatment under the scheme. Under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana, Rs 5,000 is given to each eligible family.

Gujarat: Panel for Class X mass promotion move

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Gujarat government has decided to form a committee to look into the challenges and issues arising from mass promotion to Class X students and find solutions.

The decision to cancel board exams will pose a challenge to the Education department for enrolling students who plan to pursue diploma engineering or ITI studies after Class X, said a official.

The committee will look into this and other issues and submit their findings to the state government in a few days,