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]]>People familiar with the development said on Thursday the ministry of home affairs (MHA), after examining the report submitted by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal-appointed three-member panel, which it says recommended a “detailed enquiry”, has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to register a preliminary enquiry (PE) in the matter.
A PE is the precursor to a First Information Report (FIR), during which agency carries out investigations to ascertain whether a cognizable offence is made out or not.
The Delhi government termed the move as “harassment” by the Centre.
“There is absolutely no truth to these allegations. A committee was already set up to investigate the matter thoroughly, which gave a clean chit. It is a politically motivated conspiracy against AAP. The BJP wants to prevent the people of Delhi from getting new buses,” the Delhi government said in a statement.
“In the past as well, the Centre has tried to harass the Delhi government using the CBI, but not even once has their attempt been successful because there has never been any truth to any of their allegations. The Delhi government does not believe in the politics of slander, it only believes in good governance and is committed to delivering upon its promise of good governance,” it added.
Incidentally, as reported by HT in the second week of July, the L-G-appointed panel gave a clean chit to the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) in the tendering and procurement of the buses; except finding some “procedural lapses” arising out of “a bona fide decision making”.
“The tendering process of purchase of buses warrants no interference and suffers from no major infirmity… The committee, prima facie, did not come across any material to impute criminal misconduct attributable to any public official,” the report said.
There were only procedural lapses apparently arising out of a bona fide decision-making process. However, a greater effort for understanding the market and a higher degree of due diligence in assessing reasonableness of bids was required compared to what seems to have been demonstrated,” it added.
The DTC, which comes under the Delhi government, in March last year, floated a tender for procurement of 1,000 CNG low-floor buses and issued another tender for allotting the annual maintenance contract (AMC) for these buses four months later.
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]]>To integrate the signalling system between recently opened Trilokpuri-Sanjay Lake and Mayur Vihar Pocket-1 section of Pink Line, the first and last train services to be effective from the night of 16.08.21 till 10.09.2021 will be as per given below timings,” the DMRC tweet said.
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“First train service from both the ends (Majlis Park and Shiv Vihar) will commence at 6:30 AM (instead of present 6:00 AM). Similarly, the last train service from both the ends will start at 10:00 PM (instead of 11:00 PM at present),” It tweeted further, explaining the changes.
The DMRC said that on Sundays, services from both the ends will continue to start at 8am, but the last train from both the ends will start at 10pm instead of the current 11pm time.
“Normal first and last train services from 6:00 AM and 11:00 PM on Pink Line will resume from 11th September 2021 onwards,” the DMRC further said.
The Pink Line became the longest operational corridor of the Delhi Metro network after a small section of the 59-km-long corridor was inaugurated earlier this month. The section of 289 metres between Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 and Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake stations was inaugurated on August 6.
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]]>The minimum temperature was also recorded four notches below the season’s average at 23.8 degrees Celsius, they said.
The maximum and minimum temperature is likely to settle around 34 and 25 degrees Celsius on Monday, the weatherman said, adding that there is also a possibility of thunderstorm accompanied with rain.
The relative humidity was recorded 71 at per cent.
The air quality index (AQI) in the national capital was 89 at 6.05 pm, real-time data issued by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) showed.
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]]>According to the Centre’s pricing schedule, Sputnik has been priced at ₹ 1,145, which will contain hospital charges and tax.
The announcement comes amid a dire vaccine shortage in the country, which has just passed through an excruciating second phase of the coronavirus. Many states had to hut vaccine centres due to the shortage — a situation that is also delaying the unlock process.
Dr Reddy’s Laboratories had applied for emergency use approval of the vaccine in February. A single-dose variant Sputnik Light – essentially the first dose of the vaccine which has a 79.4 per cent efficacy rate — could be approved in the near future.
Sputnik, which received approval from the drug regulator in April, will be manufactured by five pharma firms in the country and 850 million doses are going to be produced annually.
The vaccine has the highest effectiveness – 91.6 per cent – next to the Moderna and Pfizer shots.
So far India, the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturer, has been able to vaccinate around 3 per cent of its population.
The vaccine shortage has been raising concern as several states prepare to counter a third wave of the virus. Experts have said that this can be one only if all the people in the country receive the jab as soon as possible.
The Centre has set itself a steep target of vaccinating all the eligible people in the country by the end of the year. The vaccine situation is expected to ease off from August, with the production of Serum Institute’s Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin picking up.
Earlier this month, the Centre updated its vaccination policy, taking away the responsibility of procurement and vaccination from the state governments.
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]]>“The class 9 and 11 exams, which had been postponed on April 11, have now been cancelled. Private schools which have completed their mid-term and annual exams can declare their exam results and promote students based on that. In schools, where only the mid-term exams have been conducted, schools may use the mid-term exam marks to declare class 9 and 11 results. Where some mid-term papers were conducted but not others, students’ results will be declared on the basis of the two subjects in which they performed the best,” he said. Using the alternate means, government schools have been asked to declare their results on June 22.
He further added, “There are some students who may have written only one paper or no mid-term exams, and some who didn’t pass the mid-term exams. All these children will be given the chance to write exams but not physically. This will be through re-assessment project and assignment for which detailed guidelines will be issued.”
Sisodia also announced that the online registration for admission to Delhi government schools for classes 6 to 9 will begin tomorrow. The registration process will continue till June 30 and the admission lists will be prepared by July 14. For those left behind in this round, another round of registrations will begin on July 23.
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]]>Lawyers Request Delhi CM To Reserve Covid-19 Beds). He says that he is facing trouble in finding beds in the hospital
Many lawyers, judges, court staff and their family corona have been infected. There is also no government hospital around Dwarka sub-city and the population here is more than 12 lakhs.
Bar Association president YP Singh suggested that the recently built Indira Gandhi Government Hospital has 17 thousand beds. It should be opened to the public and beds should be reserved for the court staff.
YP Singh further said that at least 500 beds should be reserved for lawyers. Apart from this, 50 beds should be reserved for the judges and their families and 100 beds for the court staff.
Let us know that apart from the CM of Delhi, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has also been sent.
It is further written in the letter that the CM of Delhi should consider the Bar Association’s demand to reserve beds as the situation in Corona’s Second Wave is becoming increasingly worse. In Delhi alone, more than 20 thousand cases of corona are coming up every day.
Significantly, the Kejriwal government had last week converted 100 rooms of Delhi’s Ashoka Hotel into a covid Health facility and reserved all these rooms for the judges, judicial officers and their families of Delhi High Court.
The Delhi High Court reprimanded the Kejriwal government on this. The High Court had said that they had never made any such demand from the Delhi government.
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]]>CM Kejriwal of Delhi said in the letter that ‘Medical oxygen is not produced in Delhi and there is no medical oxygen factory here, so do whatever you can to support it.’
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to his counterparts from other states requesting supply of oxygen.
In the letter, Kejriwal said, “The central government is helping us, but the outbreak of covid-19 is such that all the resources being provided are falling short.”
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There is an outcry in Delhi hospitals regarding oxygen supply. There is a lot of pressure on hospitals where small and big hospitals are running out of limited supplies for the next few hours. Disappointing scenes are also seen outside hospitals, where queues of ambulances, troubled relatives are pleading to recruit patients, patients are breathing and hospitals trying to deal with emergency situations standing at their door Have been.
Hospital in Delhi forced to use protected storage of oxygen
In the midst of a deepening crisis over the lack of oxygen in Delhi, many hospitals have no option but to use protected back-up storage. Some hospitals like Saroj Super Specialty are advising relatives of patients to take patients to another hospital. Forti’s Hospital (Shalimar Bagh) is currently running on a protected oxygen supply and has urged the Prime Minister, the Chief Minister of Delhi and other ministers to provide ‘immediate help’.
Saroj Super Specialty Hospital has not been supplied oxygen for the last 44 hours and is now advising relatives of the patients to take them to another hospital. PK Bhardwaj, Medical Director of Saroj Super Specialty Hospital, said, “We are running out of oxygen and using our back-ups. We have informed the patients about the situation and are advising them to be admitted to other hospitals. Things are really very unstable. “
Bhardwaj said that the hospital needs an average of three metric tons of oxygen per day and has been getting around one metric ton of oxygen for the last few days. The hospital currently has 70 patients on oxygen.
Officials said that 20 extremely sick patients died overnight in Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi amid an oxygen crisis. There are about 200 patients admitted to the hospital and they had only half an hour of oxygen left at 10.45 am.
The situation is also similar in Forti’s Hospital of Shalimar Bagh and work is being carried out here with protected oxygen supply and waiting for oxygen supply from morning. The hospital tweeted that oxygen was running out at Forties Hospital in Shalimar Bagh and patients’ lives were in danger.
The hospital said in the tweet, “We are using conserved oxygen and are waiting for its supply since morning.” We are currently prohibiting the recruitment of patients. Immediately there is a request for help. ” He has tagged this tweet to the Prime Minister’s Office, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh.
The hospital said that it is keeping patients and the stakeholders aware of the ‘critical situation’ and is trying to manage the admitted patients to the best of their ability. Other hospitals receiving new supplies claim that their oxygen storage will end in a few hours.
Batra Hospital located in Tughlakabad Institutional Area received an emergency supply of oxygen by the Delhi government within minutes of the oxygen exhaustion. He has said that his storage will last for one and a half hours.
The hospital’s executive director, Sudhanshu Venkat, said that the hospital had run out of oxygen at around 9 am. He told, “Just now, emergency supply of oxygen has been provided to us by the Delhi government. It will last for about one and a half hours. Our supplier is not answering the phone. “There are about 350 patients admitted to the hospital of which 265 are suffering from Corona virus and 30 are in ICU.
Officials said the Sir Gangaram Hospital in central Delhi requires at least 11,000 cubic meters of oxygen per day. When 1.5 tons of oxygen reached the hospital, it had 200 cubic meters of oxygen left. An official said, “This 1.5 tonne supply can be finished in two hours.” The situation is very serious. “
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]]>He has isolated himself, but he is looking at every thing personally. Apart from this, the whole team is engaged under the leadership of Deputy Chief Ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain.
Significantly, the number of corona cases has increased rapidly in the country as well as in Delhi in recent times. More than 25 thousand corona cases were filed in Delhi on Sunday.
Talking about the country, according to the data released by the Union Health Ministry, on Tuesday, more than two and a half lakh new cases have been reported in India.
This is the fourth consecutive day when more than 2.5 lakh new cases have been registered in the country, according to the Ministry, the number of total infected has increased to 1,53,21,089 after 2,59,170 new cases have come in the country in the last 24 hours.
At the same time, the maximum number of deaths in this period has been 1761, after which the total number of dead has increased to 1,80,530. The most worrying matter is that the number of active patients in the country has crossed the 20 lakh mark.
According to the Union Health Ministry, covid currently has 20,31,977 active in the country. That is, their treatment is either going on in the hospital or it is in home isolation on the instructions of the doctors.
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A bus carrying laborers and students from Delhi has overturned on the Gwalior-Jhansi highway. After this accident, a terrible scene has been seen at the scene of the incident. Workers have been seen coming out of the window to save their lives.
Two laborers have died on the spot in the accident. At the same time, one died during treatment in Gwalior.
24 people have been injured in this accident. The injured are being treated at Jairogya Hospital in Gwalior.
It is being told that the bus was overloaded. The Zorasi overturned uncontrollably in the valley. Many workers were buried below the bus overturning.
The administration team reached the spot and immediately rescued the people. He is then rushed to the hospital.
People were seen coming out the window The bus was going from Delhi to Tikamgarh. Most of the laborers in it were from Chhatarpur and Damoh.
This area falls in Bundelkhand. It is being told that most of the people in the bus work in Delhi. Everyone was returning to their homes after the news of the lockdown. This accident has happened during this time.
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Police of Biloua police station has reached the spot. It is being told that the condition of five of the injured is critical.
The police have started the investigation and started investigating the case. Passengers told that we were returning home because of the lockdown. It was just packed. Covid rules were also not being followed.
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