-Hindustan Times Requisition health care workers; create temporary facilities; have a clear chain of command; help patients The financial backbone and the political nerve-centre of our country are both reeling. And the worst is still yet to come. With the biggest single-day jump in cases this week, it’s critical to understand what is going on in Mumbai and Delhi — that along with Ahmedabad and Chennai — have become the cities to...
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MCDs cite funerals to put toll at 2,098, almost double Delhi govt count -Abhinav Rajput
-The Indian Express Delhi coronavirus news update: All three municipal corporations in Delhi are ruled by the BJP, and have targeted the AAP-led Delhi government on this issue in the past too. The three municipal corporations of Delhi said on Thursday that “there have been 2,098 funerals of Covid-19 positive patients” at the designated crematoriums and burial grounds under their jurisdiction so far. The last rites of an additional “over 200 suspected...
More »IIT-Delhi kids help last rites go green with cow dung logs -Mohammad Ibrar
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A team of 40 IIT Delhi students has devised a way to fight air pollution - by replacing wood with cow dung "logs" during funerals. The "environment-friendly technique" also seeks to reduce deforestation by cutting down dependence on wood. "Arth, an initiative by Enactus IIT-D, targets replacing wood as a fuel at Delhi's crematoriums," said Faraz Mazhar, a member of the group. According to his teammate, Shalaka...
More »Build Separate crematoriums For Dalits: Gujarat Assembly Panel
-PTI The Gujarat government should build separate crematoriums for Dalits in those villages where the community is still facing problems, the Scheduled Castes Welfare Committee of the Gujarat Assembly has suggested. The Assembly panel, which serves as the watchdog of welfare schemes being run by various government departments for SCs in Gujarat, also recommended reservation system for the recruitment in self financed colleges in Gujarat. These suggestions were made in two of the...
More »Delhi high court wants CAG to audit forest department, civic bodies
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday decided to rope in the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to audit city's forest department and other civic agencies to find out how much money was generated by them from the permission granted to cut trees. A bench of Justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar asked the national auditor to examine the accounts as it wants to know how...
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