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Panel soon to collaborate with NGOs
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Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday announced that a State-level coordination committee of IAS officers would be constituted to collaborate with NGOs in providing support to those affected by COVID-19.
Besides, a Command Centre would be set up to identify and provide specific interventions for patients, such as providing oxygen and life-saving drugs and also to create awareness among people of the need to undertake vaccination with the help of NGOs.
During his meeting with representatives of various NGOs, Mr. Stalin said the State government has provided a list of tasks from which the NGOs could choose and commence their work.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has written to Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, asking him to take action against minister Rajendra Pal Gautam for disclosing the identity of minors in a social media post.
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MYSURU: The Karnataka BJP and Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, who successfully implemented Operation Lotus, won by-elections and were doing well in village panchayats, were delivered a big jolt by voters in the Urban Local Body elections on Friday. Over the past two years, the party had managed to win every election and by-election, even winning KR Pet, considered a Vokkaliga bastion.
Though it s considered to be a party of urbanites and businessmen, the BJP could win only in Madikeri, a party stronghold for more than a decade. That the BJP failed in Theerthahalli in Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa s home turf Shivamogga and Ballari the fortress of the Reddy brothers and Social Welfare Minister Minister Sriramulu has raised eyebrows, and much concern in BJP circles. Although ministers K S Eshwarappa, Sriramulu, MP B Y Raghavendra and others had aggressively campaigned from the front, they lost the ULBs decisively to the Congress.
Authorities told to set up care centres in all revenue divisions
Health Minister Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas on Saturday directed the East Godavari district authorities to set up a COVID Care Centre in all the revenue divisions on a war-footing basis.
In a review meeting held with the district officials and public representatives, Mr. Krishna Srinivas admitted that there is a shortage in supply of oxygen in the district and assured the officials that the required 72 kg of oxygen per day would be arranged soon. At present, the district authorities are able to get barely 45 kg per day.
Of the total cases reported in the district during the second wave, Rajamahendravaram revenue division alone accounts for 34.3%. In East Godavari, as many as 690 persons succumbed to COVID by April 30 and 12,234 cases are active.