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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Saturday reconstituted the six empowered groups set up for Covid-19 management to make 10 panels, expanding their ambit to look into issues like availability of oxygen, vaccination, emergency response and economic welfare measures.
According to an official order, the issues related to oxygen production, import, establishment of PSA plants will be dealt with by an empowered group, whose convenor will be the Secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and it will have 10 members.
The convenor for the empowered group on vaccination, vaccine procurement, import etc, will be NITI Aayog member V K Paul. It will have nine other members, including the Foreign Secretary.
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After drawing criticism from the Supreme Court over the management of Covid, the Centre has reconstituted six empowered groups it formed to tackle issues relating to the pandemic into ten groups.
According to an official order, the issues related to oxygen production, import, establishment of PSA plants will be dealt with by an empowered group, whose convenor will be the Secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and it will have 10 members.