Now, Devendra Fadnavis writes to Chief Minister seeking frontline workers status for journalists
Mirror Online / Updated: May 12, 2021, 14:38 IST
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Opposition leader
Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday demanded that
journalists should be declared as
frontline workers.
In a letter to Chief Minister
Uddhav Thackeray, Fadnavis demanded that journalists and cameramen should be declared as frontline workers and given priority in
vaccination.
The BJP leader also said that several journalists have been making a demand and have also registered an online protest. In the first wave, we lost several journalists and many have lost lives in the second wave. In such conditions, it is our responsibility to take care of them. If they are declared frontline workers, they will get priority in vaccination.
.It is a complete failure of the state government. It failed to convince the SC on why it was important to breach the 50 per cent ceiling on quota in extraordinary circumstances, which has been created in the state with regard to the Maratha community, Patil told reporters in Pune.
He said the previous Devendra Fadnavis-led state government had formed the Backward Class Commission which recommended to consider the Maratha community as backward on three fronts - social, economic, and educational.
The Fadnavis government then enacted the law (in 2018) giving reservation to the Maratha community in jobs and education, which was later challenged in the Bombay High Court.
22 patients on ventilators die at Nashik hospital after oxygen leak disrupts supply
22 patients on ventilators die at Nashik hospital after oxygen leak disrupts supply
Twenty two patients at a Nashik hospital in Maharashtra died after an oxygen tank leaked in the hospital premises on Wednesday.
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An oxygen tank leaked in Zakir Hussain Hospital in Nashik on Wednesday. (Screengrab from video)
At least 22 patients died after an oxygen tank leaked at Zakir Hussain Hospital in Nashik on Wednesday, an official said. As many as 171 patients were present in the hospital at the time of the incident. The oxygen supply was stopped for half an hour due to the leak, because of which those on the ventilator lost their lives, said Kailash Jadhav, Commissioner, Nasik Municipal Corporation.
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