-IndiaToday.com Nandurbar, a tribal district in Maharashtra, has evolved a model that ensures optimum use of medical oxygen. The district had started planning for its oxygen needs in September last year and has installed three plants since then. Today, it's self-sufficient in oxygen and is supplying the excess to other districts. The term 'oxygen nurse' was coined in Nandurbar, a tribal district in Maharashtra, for its optimum utilisation of oxygen cylinders. Following...
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Ensure voting rights of migrant workers, ADR urges in its letter to ECI
-Press communiqué by Association for Democratic Reforms, dated 5th May, 2021 In a letter sent to Shri Sushil Chandra, Chief Election Commissioner and Shri Rajiv Kumar, Election Commissioner on 5th May, 2021, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has requested for extending facilities allowing migrant workers to vote from their current residences away from home constituencies, at a time when similar facility is being worked out for the Non-resident Indians (NRIs) by...
More »Taxes On Covid-Related Drugs, Equipment Are Unacceptable
-NDTV The government is taxing people who buy Covid-related medical drugs like Remdesivir and others, as well as taxing the supplements and medical grade oxygen for oxygen cylinders, with a tax as high as 12 per cent. New Delhi: Indian and global medical experts are shocked at the Indian government making money off the sick and dying. Every expert consulted for this report said this has to stop. A family that buys an...
More »MGNREGA jobs helped people sustain in Jharkhand during 2020-21 -Achintya Ganguly
-The Telegraph The jobs created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) helped people sustain in Jharkhand during 2020-21 and also expected to do the same even this year. Ranchi: This was revealed in a report on the performances of the job scheme released by an independent organisation, Lib Tech India, late last week. “We have just complied the data as available in the public domain to arrive at the...
More »27 mn households sought work under employment guarantee scheme last month -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard This was mainly on account of migrants again returning to their homes due to the second wave of Covid-19 and several cities going into lockdowns Around 27.3 million households demanded work under MGNREGA in April 2021, among the highest for the month in recent times. This comes as migrants once again returned to their homes due to the second wave of Covid-19 and several cities went into lockdowns. The high work demand...
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