Streamlining COVID-19 vaccine supplies
The Central government asking the states to prioritise the second dose of COVID-19 vaccines is an indication that vaccination will slow down over the next couple of months due to shortage.
| 14 May 2021 5:30 AM GMT
The Central government asking the states to prioritise the second dose of COVID-19 vaccines is an indication that vaccination will slow down over the next couple of months due to shortage. The Ministry of Health has written to all the States to prioritise the second dose over the first dose in a 70:30 ratio. Vaccination gathering fresh momentum will depend on vaccine companies ramping up production. The Central government has informed the Supreme Court that monthly vaccine production would be ramped up to more than 13 crore doses by July-end. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change recommended in March to strengthen efforts for ramping up the production capaci
Allow Virtual Parliamentary Committees : Trinamool Reiterates Again Allow Virtual Parliamentary Committees : Trinamool Reiterates Again Citing the confidentiality clause, the centre has said no to opposition requests in the past.
Called mini-Parliament, these Committees hold the government accountable on micro-issues (File)
New Delhi:
The Trinamool Congress has written another letter, its third, to both Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla underscoring the need to hold virtual meetings of parliamentary committees as the deadly second wave of the coronavirus sweeping through a wide swathe of the country has been worsening the health crisis.
Referred to as mini-Parliament, these Committees hold the government accountable on micro-issues.
Companies other than Bharat Biotech must be given contracts to manufacture the indigenously developed Covaxin in bulk. This is the time to open licensing to any company that wants to produce vaccines and for anyone who wants to take a jab, per doctors.
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Jairam Ramesh urges parliamentary standing committees be allowed to meet virtually.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday demanded Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla allow parliamentary standing committees to meet virtually to discuss issues of urgent public importance.
Ramesh, the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change, has been calling for allowing the holding of Committee meetings virtually in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
Naidu had earlier disallowed the request, citing rules and secrecy issues. I am requesting this once again for the umpteenth time. Speaker Lok Sabha Om Birla and Chairman Rajya Sabha M Venkaiah Naidu, please allow virtual meetings of Standing Committees. There are so many issues of utmost public importance that need to be discussed urgently, he said in a tweet.