Minister discusses lack of medical staff, poor sanitation
The Hindu
Buggana promises adequate funding to check the spread of virus
Finance Minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy reviewed the COVID-19 situation at a meeting here on Thursday and discussed the pressing issues such as shortage of doctors, paramedical staff, sanitation in public places, preparedness by private hospitals to treat patients at the prescribed rates under Aarogyasri scheme and setting up COVID Care Centres at far-flung places. At the meeting held at the Zilla Parishad DRC Hall here, the Minister also discussed the lack of use of sodium hypochlorite in the limits of Anantapur Municipal Corporation owing to pending dues to the suppliers from last year, pending bills of transporters who had arranged vehicles for movement of patients, material, and frontline workers.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











