“Will the Supreme Court of India’s Order be Followed or Obeyed?”
Highlights By: Balbir Singh Sooch
1.      Where Is The Truth and Gap In The Information? Decide and Ask Questions: Sybmission by Balbir Singh Sooch
2.      “The top court, which observed that panic will destroy more lives than the virus, asked the Centre to get trained counsellors and community leaders of all faiths to calm down the migrants, who are kept in shelter homes across the country.
3.      The Centre told the apex court that the suggestion to sprinkle water and chemicals on migrants to sanitise them does not work scientifically and is not the right way”. PTI | Updated: March 31, 2020, 17:58 IST: TOI
4.      “Will the Supreme Court of India’s Order be Followed-Obeyed?” “In face of the rickety-shaky, unsound, unstable; in bad condition, unstable, and are likely to collapse in bad condition, unstable, and likely to collapse’ public healthcare system in India.”India ups its covid game, but is it enough?
5.      State of affairs: People who have been quarantined in the country for suspected exposure to the virus say conditions in government facilities are unsanitary and could potentially foment the outbreak. Whereas people expected clean quarantine facilities in all shelter homes in India.
6.      First came a lockdown: The government, last week, ordered a state-mandation 21-day lockdown for the nation, halting production lines, grounding planes and bringing the economy to a standstill.
7.      A mass exodus of migrant workers from cities to their villages, often on foot and without food and water, is also raising fears that the virus may have reached to the countryside, where health care facilities are limited.
8.      What is government doing to fight the deadly virus? To up its corona-fight, India is now roping in private hospitals for treatment of patients, and turning railway cars and motor racing circuits into makeshift quarantine facilities.
9.      Indian Railways has announced that it is converting some of its train coaches into isolation units for rural and remote areas. All passenger train services in the country has been suspended until April 14, 2020.
10.  Helping hands: As India's under-resourced health care system prepares to confront a wave of coronavirus cases, some state governments have asked liquor factories and breweries to produce liquid sanitizer after the initial supply failed to match demand.
11.  Bare minimum: India has less than one medical doctor and three nurses per thousand people, the minimum recommended by the World Health Organization. The dominant share of India's doctors and beds are in the private health care sector, which the country's poor often cannot afford.
12.  India's big city hospitals may be well equipped to deal with the surge in virus cases, but the same can't be said about most district hospitals in rural areas.
13.  The governments of the states of Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh have announced in the past few days that intensive care units, ventilators and staff of private hospitals might be requisitioned to treat virus patients.
14.  Instead, they found stained bedding with five people in a room, dirty floors and clogged washrooms that were full of bird droppings.
15.  The facility already housed more than 200 people who rushed through its corridors in groups, risking the spread of the virus, Padder said” ET Online|31 March 2020, 12:37 PM ST
16.  SC asks Centre to curb fake news on coronavirus, set up portal within 24 hours for real-time information, data, figures: PTI | Updated: March 31, 2020, 17:58 IST:TOI
(i)   NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre to set up a portal within 24 hours for dissemination of real time information on the coronavirus pandemic to counter the panic being spread through fake news.
(ii)   The top court, which observed that panic will destroy more lives than the virus, asked the Centre to get trained counsellors and community leaders of all faiths to calm down the migrants, who are kept in shelter homes across the country.
(iii)    It also asked the Centre to ensure that migration is stopped and to take care of food, shelter, nourishment and medical needs of the people and also to follow up of cases of the virus, also called COVID-19.
(iv)     The Centre told the apex court that the suggestion to sprinkle water and chemicals on migrants to sanitise them does not work scientifically and is not the right way.
(v)      The top court, which refused to restrain the High Courts from taking up the issue of migrants, said they may monitor the issue more closely. It however asked the Centre to tell the government lawyers to inform the high courts about the orders passed by the apex court.
(vi)   A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao, which took up two PILs on the issue of migration through video conference, asked the Centre to look into the letter petitions filed by Kerala MP from Kasaragod constituency Rajmohan Unnithan and one filed by a MP from West Bengal on the issues related to Coronavirus.
(vii)   The bench asked the Centre to ensure that duties of managing the shelter homes, where migrants are being kept, are entrusted to volunteers and not to the police and there should not be any use of force or intimidation.
(viii)  It asked the government that there must be adequate provisions of drinking water, food, beds and medicines in these shelters.
17.  “Covid-19: Over 21k camps operational in India housing over 6.6 L people: “NEW DELHI: Over 21,000 Covid-19 relief camps have been made operational in the country where more than 6.6 lakh stranded and destitute people are sheltered as of now, the Union home ministry said on Tuesday.
18.  Punya Salila Srivastava, a joint secretary in the ministry, told reporters during a daily briefing that over 23 lakh people are also being provided food at these camps…” PTI | Updated: Mar 31, 2020, 17:42 IST: TOI
19.   Again To Know The Ground Realities For Remedial Action: THINK RIGHT ACT RIGHT: Where Is The Truth and Gap In The Information? Decide and Ask Questions: Submission by Balbir Singh Sooch and do face gladly, “As Asok Dasgupta commented:  “People wish you reach your home, sweet home ; true -the thorny-;barbed or difficult path’ appears endless smiles the virus demon-‘evil spirit; creates personal fear or anxiety’ ,"Try,try,try, the helpless migrants, cross the barrier-‘sticking point, blockade’ I built, and realize-become conscious your world is in a pathetic-‘sad, weak, pitiable, useless; so inadequate as to be laughable or contemptible’ mess-‘chaos, disorder, confusion, dotter, small’"! THE HINDU: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/cartoon/cartoonscape-march-31-2020/article31210616.ece?homepage=true
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“Will the Supreme Court of India’s Order be Followed or Obeyed?”