The Jharkhand government is likely to bring in an ordinance soon to ensure that panchayati raj institutions can continue functioning in the state.
The present term of the rural bodies expires on July 15. “We will surely find a way out before that,” state rural development and panchayati raj minister Alamgir Alam told The Telegraph.
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Sources said an ordinance is being considered unavoidable because the panchayat elections that were due in December last year could not been held due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
As the term of the office-bearers of the rural bodies was scheduled to end by the first week of January this year, the government took a decision to set up working committees with the elected representatives as members for another six months, expecting the panchayat elections would be conducted within that time. But the polls could not be conducted as the country and the state had to grapple with the ravaging second wave of the pandemic and the situation remains
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Jamui district, with a population of around 20 lakh, received 260 vaccine vials on Saturday.
Begusarai district, where over 30 lakh people reside, got 200 vials on Friday and none on Saturday.
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Bihar’s vaccination drive has slowed down to a trickle because of lack of supplies, but the Nitish Kumar government that has the BJP as its dominant partner has been silent, showing nothing of the urgency the other states have been displaying while demanding increased supplies from the Centre.
The majority of the 38 districts of Bihar have been getting a meagre supply of vaccines since early last week, with no consignment having arrived from the Centre in the past two days, sources in the state government said.