Prepare plans to check the spread of seasonal diseases, Health Minister directs officials
The Hindu
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Deputy Chief Minister and Health Minister Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas has advised the officials to prepare plans for the effective implementation of preventive measures to check the spread of seasonal diseases. Presiding over a review meeting with people’s representatives and the officials at the VMRDA Children’s Theatre here on Tuesday, the Health Minister said that this year like last year, there were good rains and the incidence of seasonal diseases like dengue, malaria and chikungunya was quite high in the Visakhapatnam district, as per the statistics provided by the district officials.
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government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday.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











