Pune: Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope on Friday said the state has requested the Union government to consider applying the indelible ink on the fingers of the beneficiaries receiving the Covid-19 vaccine on the lines of identifying the voters after polling.
The state conducted a fairly successful dry run across 114 centres on Friday, when the health machinery checked its preparedness to handle the Covid-19 vaccination.
“We have requested the Union health ministry to use the indelible ink during the vaccination programme, in the lines of which it is done during election. Once the beneficiary has been vaccinated, his finger should be inked. Even if the Union government doesn t approve it, we will follow it in Maharashtra,” Tope said. Swatee Kher
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PUNE/MUMBAI: The education department will soon declare first-year junior college (FYJC) admissions on a first come, first served basis in Mumbai, Pune, Amravati, Aurangabad, Nagpur and Nashik. The second special round will end on January 9. By the end of the first special round, out of a total intake of 5.6 lakh, as many as 3.2 lakh students had confirmed their admissions; 2.4 lakh seats were still vacant.
Last year, the education department decided to do away with the first come, first served (FCFS) rounds and instead host additional merit-based admission rounds after three regular ones. A government resolution to the effect was issued on June 24, 2020.
Aerial view of Pune
PUNE: Pune has emerged the happiest city in Maharashtra in the India Cities Happiness Report 2020 compiled by Rajesh K Pillania, a professor of strategic management at Management Development Institute, Gurugram.
The city ranked 12th across India and has been classified a ‘new metro’. The study covered 13,000 people across 34 major cities of the country during October-November 2020.
Insights on factors to determine happiness were gathered from global thought leaders such as John F Hellwell, co-editor, the World Happiness Report, Richard Florida, leading urbanist, Padma Bhushan awardee M.B Athreya, known as the founder of the Indian management movement, Jamie Lerner, world renowned architect and urban planner, among others.
Girish Mahajan
PUNE: The city police are investigating an FIR lodged by a lawyer-cum-director of an education cooperative from Jalgaon, accusing senior state BJP leader and former minister Girish Mahajan and 28 others of conspiracy, extortion, theft, forgery and 14 other criminal charges related to an incident of January 2018.
Prima facie, the case arises from a tussle to gain control over the Maratha Vidya Prasarak Sahakari Samaj, a cooperative organization in Jalgaon. Complainant Vijay Patil is one of its directors and the persons named in the FIR are its office-bearers and members, a police officer, who did not wish to be named, said.
Dr Sheela Jagtap from the BMC explains syringe use in vaccination
PUNE: The districts of Pune, Nandurbar, Jalna and Nagpur will carry out vaccination dry runs on Saturday. The process involves a dummy shot to 25 participants at select sites.
State health minister Rajesh Tope, who on Thursday announced the dry runs, said that the four districts were selected to check for preparedness levels.
“The state is ready with vaccinators and the facilities,” the minister said.
This week, the states of Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Punjab held their own vaccination dry runs. The drills involve transport of an “approved shot” to a designated site, the arrival of “beneficiaries” and uploading of dosage details onto the CoWin app all without an actual vaccine.