Utta Pradesh CM has told officials to keep a close eye on the situation in Lucknow, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi and Gorakhpur considering the rapid rise in the districts.
LUCKNOW: Alarmed over the constant rise in Covid-19 cases, chief minister Yogi Adityanath directed health officials to undertake additional surveillance measures in districts with more than 100 active cases. As per the official bulletin on Covid-19, 40 districts in the state fall in this category.
Meanwhile, 3,999 new cases in the past 24 hours took state’s total to 6,34,033 on Monday. Of the total cases, 6,02,319 have recovered while 8,894, including 13 in the past 24, hours have died.
The CM also told officials to keep a close eye on the situation in Lucknow, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi and Gorakhpur considering the rapid rise in the districts. As per the information, nearly 50% of the present case load is being reported in the five big cities.
Prayagraj: The death of 94 persons in 196 cases of road accidents in January and February this year has once again brought focus on rash and negligent driving that continues to claim more lives on the highway and streets of Sangam city. The Prayagraj district has topped the chart of road accident deaths in the Prayagraj range which includes Prayagraj, Fatehpur, Pratapgarh and Kaushambi districts.
Statistics revealed by the range police on Thursday showed that as many as 94 people lost their lives and 125 others sustained injuries in 196 cases of road accidents in Prayagraj in January and February this year, while the numbers for road accident deaths in Pratapgarh, Fatehpur and Kaushambi in the same period stood at 47, 60 and 32 respectively.
Gorakhpur: The chairman of Gita Press Trust and editor of its famous monthly magazine Kalyan, Radheshyam Khemka, 86, passed away at his residence in Varanasi and was cremated at the Harishchandra Ghat on Sunday.
He was infirm from last some time and was under treatment at a private hospital in Ravindrapuri, said Gita Press product manager, Lal Mani Tripathi.
He is survived by his son Rajaram Khemka, daughter Raj Rajeshwari and nephews Gopal Khemka and Ganesh Khemka.
A condolence meeting was organized at the Gita Press office in Gorakhpur after getting the information of his sad demise and tributes were paid by trustees Devi Dayal Agarwal, Madhav Prasad Jalan, Tripathi and all Gita Press staff.
Varanasi: As many as 13 contractual labourers were injured when a scaffolding collapsed at the Lanco thermal power plant, Anpara in Sonbhadra district on Sunday morning during maintenance work. There were no fatalities and eight of the 13 injured were discharged after first-aid, while the remaining five are also out of danger.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took cognisance of the incident and has asked the additional chief secretary (energy) to conduct a probe into the matter and fix responsibility for action. The CM also directed the local administration to ensure proper relief work and treatment of the injured.
According to reports, the 600MW unit number-2 had been shut down at 10.24pm on Saturday for maintenance work for which a 36-metre-high scaffolding was put up.
Varanasi: The Ballia police arrested an arms dealer and his brother for allegedly forging sale documents and sent them to jail on Saturday.
According to reports, Seraj Alam and Meraj, who own a shop in Loha Patti locality, were arrested on the basis of a complaint lodged by Kotwali police station SHO Bal Mukund Mishra.
Mishra said, the arrested persons were booked under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (fraudulently or dishonestly using as genuine any document or electronic record) and Arms Act.
Mishra said, an arms licence holder Manager Singh, a retired CRPF personnel and resident of Dumri village under Dubhar police station area, had bought only 10 cartridges from the accused. But the dealer forged documents to show that he had bought 50 cartridges each on August 27, August 28 and September 1. This way the accused supplied cartridges to unauthorised persons. An investigation revealed that the