CM Directive to Collectors on organisations run by Missionaries of Charity

Bhubanewar: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik has asked the District Collectors to be in regular touch with the organisations run by the Missionaries of Charity in Odisha. He has directed them to ensure that no inmate of these organisations suffer, especially from food security and health related distress. Wherever needed, funds from Chief Minister’s Relief Fund can be utilised for this purpose, the Chief Minister said.

It may be mentioned here that Missionaries of Charity is running many Leprosy Homes & Orphanages in Odisha.

• AIIMS Bhubaneswar pays rich tributes to its founder Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Cleanliness drive and awareness to adopt it hold by NSS volunteers to mark Good Governance Day

Bhubaneswar: Former Prime Minister, legendary statesman Bharat Ratna late Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be always there in the hearts for his special affection towards the people of Odisha which made a series of big-ticket developmental projects for the state. Being the founder of AIIMS Bhubaneswar former Prime Minister brought a radical change in health care sector in the state. Reiterating the dynamism of Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee AIIMS Bhubaneswar paid rich tributes to Bharat Ratna on his 97th birth anniversary inside of its premises today.

Whole Nation is observing today as Good Governance Day. A meeting to mark the occasion was also organised today at AIIMS Bhubaneswar. Dean(Academics) Prof Debashis Hota, Deputy Director (Administration) P K Ray, Prof Ashok Jena In-charge Medical Superintendent and Maj M C Sahoo were among the dignitaries to grace the event. Dignitaries, personalities from different corners of society paid floral tributes in the statue of Late Vajpayee at AIIMS Bhubaneswar campus. It may be noted here that the statue of late Vajpayee has been installed in the AIIMS Bhubaneswar campus. Former Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, on 15th July 2003. AIIMS Bhubaneswar is the second AIIMS in the country and the only AIIMS whose foundation stone was laid by Shri Vajpayee.

To celebrate the occasion in a different manner a cleanliness drive just outside the AIIMS Bhubaneswar campus was carried on by AIIMS Bhubaneswar NSS Volunteers, Youth for Seva team and waste handlers of the institution. Local vendors and public sensitised to keep their environment clean and safe on the occasion by Medical and Nursing students. This effort of the students and volunteers was highly appreciated.

AIIMS Bhubaneswar has become a trusted Health Care Institution eastern India. All the faculty members, Resident doctors, Nursing officers, students, and staff have resolved to fulfil the vision of Vajpayee to establish AIIMS Bhubaneswar and follow his ideas to serve the poor & underprivileged.
Additional Prof(Anatomy) Dr. Prabhash Ranjan Tripathy coordinated the whole event which was attended by guests, faculty members, students and staff members of AIIMS Bhubaneswar.

NewDelhi: The States/UTs have reported the cancellation of about 4.28 Crore bogus ration cards during the period 2014 to 2021 so far. The Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ms.Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti shared this information in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

She said, ”Under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS), the electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devices at the Fair Price Shops (FPSs) are operated by the FPS dealers. Further, to ensure regular delivery of subsidised foodgrains to the differently abled and old-age National Food Security Act (NFSA) beneficiaries, with no other adult member in the household and who are not in position to visit the FPSs, all States/UTs are advised to implement mechanisms for special dispensation of foodgrains to such beneficiaries, either through home-delivery or through their nominated persons.”

Under NFSA inter-alia the operational responsibilities of inclusion and exclusion of households/ beneficiaries rests with the respective State/UT Governments. The addition and deletion of ration cards is a continuous process, wherein the States/UTs regularly review their list of ration cards/beneficiaries to identify and weed out potentially ineligible, duplicate or bogus ration cards after proper verification, which may also include field/ door to door verification and to include other genuinely eligible and left out households/beneficiaries, which may also include eligible tribal and poor families/ persons, up to their respective limits of NFSA coverage, she said.

Minister said, non-linking of Aadhaar with ration cards is not a ground for the cancellation of ration cards. The Department has extended the timeline given to the States/UTs, under the Notification dated 08/02/2017 (as amended from time to time) issued in exercise of Section-7 of the Aadhaar Act 2016, for completing the Aadhaar seeding of ration cards up to 31st December 2021. Until then, all States/UTs have been advised that no genuine beneficiary/household shall be deleted from the list of eligible ration cards/ beneficiaries and shall not be denied their entitled quota of foodgrains under NFSA only for want of Aadhaar number or only on the ground of not possessing an Aadhaar number, failure of biometric authentication due to network/ connectivity/ linking issues or any other technical reasons etc.

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Bhubaneswar: Chief Secretary Sri Suresh Chandra Mahapatra along with Additional Chief Secretary Health and Family Welfare Pradeepta Kumar Mohapatra visited Nabarangpur district today to review the ground level situation on Covid management.

The test and positivity ratio in the district has been reduced from 20% to 13% during last days because of shutdown and other enforcement measures taken by the Government. This trend is in declining state, and, is expected to reduce further in coming days, said Chief Secretary.

Replying to media query after the field visit and review, Chief Secretary Sri Mahapatra said that new RTPCR machine in Nabarangpur would be operationalized shortly which would provide for testing facility of around 500 samples per day. All efforts would be made to complete construction of the oxygen plant and new ward within 3 to 4 months.

Newdelhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday extended the nationwide lockdown by another two weeks or 14 days. This is in addition to the extended lockdown due to end on May 4. Simultaneously the MHA has also issued guidelines to regulate different economic activities during this period.

Some activities like travel by air, rail, metro and inter-state movement by road, Schools, colleges, training/coaching centres and other educational institutions will remain prohibited despite the classification of red, orange and green zones. Gym, parlour, malls will not open in any zones. But The government has allowed certain activities in orange zones, apart from the ones permitted in red zones. Taxis and cab aggregators will be allowed to operate only with one driver and one passenger per car in orange zones. All agriculture activities in rural areas have also been exempted from the extended lockdown along with all shops, animal husbandry activities.

E-commerce has also been allowed to resume operations and deliver non-essential goods in green and orange zones. While inter-state and intra-state movement will continue to be restricted, buses have been allowed to operate in green zones only with 50 per cent of their capacity.

All goods traffic is to be permitted. No State/ UT shall stop the movement of cargo for cross land-border trade under Treaties with neighbouring countries. No separate pass of any sort is needed for such movement, which is essential for maintaining the supply chain of goods and services across the country during the lockdown period.

As per the MHA guidelines the movement of individuals, for all nonessential activities, shall remain strictly prohibited between 7 pm to 7 am. Local authorities shall issue orders under appropriate provisions of law, such as prohibitory orders [curfew] under Section 144 of CrPC, for this purpose, and ensure strict compliance.

In all zones, persons above 65 years of age, persons with co-morbidities, pregnant women, and children below the age of 10 years, shall stay at home, except for meeting essential requirements and for health purposes. Out-Patient Departments (OPDs) and Medical clinics shall be permitted to operate in Red, Orange and Green Zones, with social distancing norms and other safety precautions; however, these will not be permitted within the Containment Zones.

Bhubaneswar: The two senior Government Officals are forced to review the covid -19 preparation again due to increase in no of Corona positive cases in Odisha. Today Devlopmnent Commissioner Suresh Chandra Mohapatra and Secretary to CM (5T) V Kartikeyan Pandian visited Jharsuguda and Sundergarh district to review the functioning of standalone Covid hospitals of the Govt of Odisha.

They also discussed with the officials regarding the preparedness of the districts on the issues related to the return of migrant Odias from other states after the lockdown and asked collectors to strictly implement the instructions given by Government so far MGNREGA is concerned.

As the per the Government information, the Jharsuguda covid hospital is already operational at old DHH, managed by Hi tech and DMF. Similarly Sundergarh covid hospital, situated at Rourkela is managed by Hi-tech with financial support from DMF. The second standalone covid hospital at Sundergarh is at NTPC Medical college,having 200 beds managed by Govt of Odisha. They also checked the ICU facilities, isolation wards etc and expressed satisfaction.

Guideline issued by Ministry of Home Affairs,

Bhubaneswar: Ministry of Home Affairs decided to run “Shramik Special” trains from “Labour Day” today, to move migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students and other persons stranded at different places due to lock down.’

Based on MHA guidelines and as per the demands received from the various state governments, 6 Shramik special trains are planned to be run from today. i.e Lingampalli to Hatia, Aluva to Bhubaneswar, Nasik to Lucknow, Nasik to Bhopal, Jaipur to Patna, Kota to Hatia.

These special trains will run from point to point on the request of both the concerned State Governments as per the standard protocols for sending and receiving such stranded persons. The Railways and State Governments shall appoint senior officials as Nodal Officers for coordination and smooth operation of these “Shramik Specials”.

As per the guideline issued, the passengers have to be screened by the sending states and only those found asymptomatic would be allowed to travel. sending State Governments will have to bring these persons in batches that can be accommodated in the train to the designated Railway Station in sanitized buses following social distancing norms and other precautions. It will be mandatory for every passenger to wear face cover. Meals and drinking water would be provided to the passengers by the sending states at the originating station.

The Railways will endeavour to ensure social distancing norms and hygiene with the cooperation of passengers. On longer routes, the Railways will provide a meal enroute during the journey.

On arrival at the destination, passengers will be received by the State Government, who would make all arrangements for their screening, quarantine if necessary and further travel from the Railway Station.

Bhubaneswar: Full pension has been sanctioned to 107 employees of different departments across all ranks on the day of retirement itself. Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy distributed the orders to the retiring employees yesterday at Lokseva Bhawan.

Complementing to the efforts of the departments of General Adminstration and Public Grievance, Finance, Home and office of the Accountant General for accomplishing the target of Full pension on the retirement day, Shri Tripathy directed the administrative departments to keep the online Human Resource Management System (HRMS) and e-service book updated for facilitating the process of e-pension.

Conventionally, the sanction of pension to retired employees of the State Government was a long process involving clearances and sanctions from various officers. As a 5T initiative, Government took a decision to simplify the process and sanction the full pension on the date of Retirement, Home secretary Sanjeev Chopra said. Earlier target was set to implement it from 31st March, 2020. He added.

Deputy Accountant General Dr Nanda Dulal Das along with senior officers of different departments were present on the occasion.

PM, VP, Minister Pradhan and Odisha CM condoles

Mumbai: Veteran bollywood actor, director and producer Rishi Kapoor died after a two-year-long battle with cancer. The 67-year-old actor was admitted in H N Reliance hospital, where he breathed his last today morning.

He won many awards for his outstanding performances in Indian cinema. Rishi Kapoor has enacted opposite to his wife Neetu Kapoor in twelve films. Kapoor made his debut as a child actor in 1970 in his father Raj Kapoor’s film “Mera Naam Joker” (“My Name is Joker”).

His first lead role — in the 1973 romantic film “Bobby” — won him the Filmfare Award, India’s equivalent of the Oscars, for Best Actor.Over the course of his career, Kapoor acted in more than 100 films. Rishi Kapoor completed his studies form Campion School, Mumbai and later on did his graduation from Mayo College, Ajmer.

Rishi Kapoor’s brothers, Randhir Kapoor and Rajiv Kapoor, uncles Prem Nath, Rajendra Nath, Shashi Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor are all gems of the Indian cinema. Rishi Kapoor has two sisters– Ritu Nanda and Rima Jain. Rishi was the grandson of Prithwiraj Kapoor.

Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchah tweeted that he was “destroyed” by Kapoor’s death. Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, Kapoor “was a powerhouse of talent’’. Vice president, Sri M. Venkaiah Naidu, tweeted that he was “deeply saddened” to learn of Kapoor’s death. Central Minister Dharmendra Pradhan tweeted, Rishi’s death is an irreparable loss to Indian cinema.

Odisha Governer Prof Ganeshilal tweeted, it is a huge loss to Indian cinema. He will be remembered for his versatile acting career spanning more than 50years. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik tweeted, Indian cinema lost one of the iconic actors who had left an imprint with many memorable movies.
Kapoor’s death comes one day after the death of fellow Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan, who was known internationally for his roles in “Life Of Pi” and “Slumdog Millionaire.”