Junior Digest

Sissu (HP), Oct 4,2020: Asserting that a major transformation has been effected in the government’s way of functioning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said new schemes are no more based on the quantum of votes from an area as the only focus now is ‘development for all’.

Addressing his first public rally in more than six months ever since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Modi said the inauguration of the Atal Tunnel is part of the central government’s resolve that the benefit of development should reach every part of the country and to every person.

Taking a dig at previous Congress-led governments, he said recall what the earlier situation was like as there were several places like Lahaul Spiti that were left to struggle on their own.

“The reason was that some districts did not serve the political benefit of some people. Now work is being done with new thinking of ‘Sabke saath se, sabke vishvaas se, sabka vikaas ho raha hai’ (Development for all is happening with help of everyone and with the trust of everyone),” Modi said at the public meeting in Sissu village of Lahaul-Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh.

“There has been a transformation in the government’s way of work. Now, schemes are not made based on how many votes are there in an area. Now the effort is that no Indian is left out,” he said.

The government is committed to providing basic amenities to Dalits, exploited, deprived, adivasis and everyone else, he said.

The Atal Tunnel will connect the youth of this region with several employment opportunities, he said.

“Some will run homestays or hotels, and some will work as guides. The tunnel will also open the world to the handicrafts, and other products produced in the region,” he said.

Earlier in the day, Modi inaugurated the strategically important all-weather Atal Tunnel in Rohtang and lashed out at the Congress-led previous governments, saying strategic projects were neglected and defence interests were compromised for years.

Atal Tunnel, built by the Border Roads Organisation, is the longest highway tunnel in the world and reduces the distance between Manali and Leh by 46 km. It also reduces travel time by four to five hours.

New Delhi, Sep 26,2020: A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court for equal protection of law to people belonging to the third gender, alleging that there was no penal provision which protects them from offences of sexual assault.

The plea, which has made the ministries of law and justice, and social justice and empowerment as parties, referred to the provisions of the IPC of 1860 and recent amendments into the statute and other laws on sexual offences and alleged that none of them talked about the “transgender, transsexuals, kinnar and eunuchs”.

“In spite of declaring transgender people to be a ‘third gender’ by this court, there is no provision / section in the Indian Penal Code which may protect the third gender from the sexual assault by male/ female or another transgender,” it said.

The PIL challenged the constitutional validity of certain clauses of Section 354A (outraging the modesty of woman) of IPC, to the extent that they are interpreted to exclude victims of sexual harassment who are transgender persons, as being ultra vires Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Constitution.

The plea filed by lawyer Reepak Kansal, in his personal capacity, said that though the apex court in 2014, had granted “recognition to the transgender/ third gender as ‘persons’ falling under the ambit of Article 14 of the Indian Constitution”, still they do not have equal protection of law in relation to sexual offenses.

“The petitioner is filing this petition…with respect to equal protection of law to the third gender/transgender from the sexual assault /offences as there is no provision / section in the IPC which may protect the third gender from the sexual assault by male/ female or another transgender therefore, an anti discrimination laws are needed to safeguard the basic citizenship rights of transgender persons,” the plea said.

The plea, which may come up for hearing in few days, has sought a direction to the Centre to “make appropriate modification/ interpretation of sections/ provisions of IPC dealing with sexual assault to include transgender/ transsexuals/ kinnar and eunuchs in the definitions accordingly”.

It also referred to an incident of not lodging an FIR by Delhi Police on a sexual harassment complaint of a Delhi University transgender student on the ground that there was no provision in the IPC to deal with transgenders.

The plea urged the top court “to issue an appropriate order… directing the respondents to pass an Anti-Discrimination Bill that penalises discrimination and harassment on the basis of gender”.

It also sought a direction to the Centre to adopt and implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights being signatory of it.

New Delhi, Sep 2,2020: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday advised the Congress ruled states to explore possibilities of bringing new laws in their respective state legislatures to bypass the Centre’s farm laws.

‘Congress President has advised the Congress ruled states to explore the possibilities to pass laws in their respective states under Article 254(2) of the constitution which allows the state legislatures to pass a law to negate the Anti-Agriculture Central laws encroaching upon State’s jurisdiction under the Constitution,’ AICC General secretary In-charge for Organization K C Venugopal said in a statement here on Monday.

‘This would enable the states to bypass the unacceptable anti-farmers’ provisions in the three draconian Agricultural laws, including the abolition of MSP and disruption of APMCs in Congress ruled states,’ the statement said.

‘This would also alleviate the farmers from the grave injustice done by the Modi Government & BJP,’ the statement added.

Despite a spate of protests by farmers and Opposition parties, President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday gave his assent to the three Farm Bills passed by Parliament recently.

The passage of the three Bills — Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020 — met with stiff opposition in the Rajya Sabha when it came up for passage on September 20.

The Government has notified the legislation in the gazette.

While the Government has described the contentious legislation as “landmark and historic”, almost the entire Opposition has attacked the Bills as anti-farmer and pro-corporate.

The Opposition parties had submitted a memorandum to the President Kovind urging him not to sign the Bills claiming they had been passed “unconstitutionally”.

NDA’s oldest ally, the Shiromani Akali Dal, had also severed ties with the Alliance in protest against the Bill after SAD minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal submitted her resignation on this issue.

Balasore, Sep 30,2020: The surface to surface supersonic cruise medium range missile BrahMos, an Indo-Russian joint venture project, was successfully test-fired from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) off Odisha coast here today.

The army version of the missile, with a range of 290 km, operating on the principle of fire, with a capacity of carrying a conventional warhead up to 200 kg, was test fired from the launch complex-3 of the ITR at 1027 hours.

The nine-meter long missile with a diameter of 670 mm, weighing nearly three tones can fly up to a height of 14 km at twice the speed of sound when fired from a ship. It is charged by a solid propellant and has a preset trajectory and could change its course to strike 20 km from the target.

BrahMos has been derived from two rivers, Brahmaputra of India and Moskva of Russia.

The test carried out in the user-deployment configuration fulfilled all the mission objectives. The missile followed a predetermined trajectory at a very low altitude impacting with precision on the designated land target, sources said.

The flight trial was witnessed by the officials of the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and Integrated Test Range (ITR).

BrahMos was currently one of the few supersonic cruise missiles in the world which has already been accepted by the Indian Navy with advance Fire Control System for its warships.

The missile was under development as a joint venture between the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) of India and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO Mashinostroyenia (NPOM) (Russia) under BrahMos Aerospace.

Guwahati, Sept 28 ,2020: Assams only woman Chief Minister Syeda Anwara Taimur died on Monday due to a cardiac arrest in Australia, her family sources said.

She was 83.

Taimur was also the lone Muslim chief minister of the state.

The former chief minister was staying in Australia with her son for the past few years, the sources said.

Taimur had helmed a Congress government in Assam from December 6, 1980 to June 30, 1981 when her term ended with the state being put under Presidents rule for six months.

She was later the PWD and agriculture minister of the state from 1983 to 1985.

Elected four times to the state Assembly in 1972, 1978, 1983 and 1991, Taimur was a Rajya Sabha member in 1988.

She quit the Congress and joined the AIDUF IN 2011.

Before her foray into politics, the Aligarh Muslim University alumni was lecturer in Economics in Debicharan Barua Girls College at Jorhat in 1956.

Her name did not figure in the contentious National Register of Citizens (NRC) final list in 2018 as she was away in Australia and could not apply for it, her family members said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condoled her death.

In a tweet he said “…Her contributions towards Assams development will be remembered. May her soul rest in peace”.

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has mourned the death of his predecessor. Anwara Taimur the lone woman Chief Minister of the state was the peoples chief minister who served the people of Assam with compassion, he said in a statement.

“During her long political career she served the people of Assam as Chief Minister, minister with different portfolios as well as MLA and MP. Her contributions for the state as well as for the welfare of the people will be acknowledged and remembered by the posterity. Her death is a loss to the state,” he added.

Lucknow, Sep 30 ,2020: In a historical judgement after November 9, 2019 Supreme court’s verdict on the title suit of Ramjanambhoomi, a Special CBI court here, after a 28 year long trial, said anti- social elements were behind the razing of the disputed Babri mosque in Ayodhya on December 6,1992.

The special judge S K Yadav, acquitted all the 32 accused including L K Advani, MM Joshi, Uma Bharati and Kalyan Singh along with 3 sitting BJP MPs , after rejecting all the evidences given by the CBI, thus questioning the credibility of the premier investigating agency.

” the CBI had not been able to establish charges against the accused The court specifically said the accused had tried to pacify the crowd, not to pull down the Babri mosque,” the judge said.

The court observed that the incident was not pre-planned and the accused had tried to persuade the mob against demolishing the structure. The court even took the name of ex VHP president late Ashok Singhal who tried his best to persuade the people who were behind the demolition.

” The leaders present at the site during the demolition were trying to stop the mob and not incite them. Stones pelting started from behind the disputed structure. Ashok Singhal wanted to keep the RSS off it and even the VHP didn’t have a role in demolition, the court said while the Special Judge Surendra Kumar Yadav , who also demits his office after exactly one year of extension, read out his exhaustive judgement in the presence of all the 32 accused, of which 26 were present physically.

As there was no concrete evidence, hence all the accused have been acquitted, the judge said.

However, the judge maintained that anti -social elements were behind the razing of the Babri mosque and no one else.

Giving reasons for not blaming the Kar Seveks for the demolition, the judge said all ‘Kar Sewaks’ were directed to bring water and flowers to keep both their hands busy on the day, as the record says.

Special CBI judge Surendra Kumar Yadav did not admit the videos produced by the Central Bureau of Investigation, holding that the recording had been tampered with, defence lawyer Manish Tripathi said.

The judge also did not admit the photographs submitted by the CBI since it could not produce the original negatives. The judge also agreed with the defence that the CBI did not follow provisions of the Evidence Act.

Mr Tripathi told reporters after the judgement that the court ordered acquittal on grounds that the evidence against them was insufficient, “The court said the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad did not have a role in the demolition. It was carried out by mischievous elements,” Tripathi said, giving details of the court verdict.

Senior counsel IB Singh, lawyer for two of the accused, said that the court rejected all the evidence produced by the CBI and acquitted all citing lack of proof.

The Special Judge said there was not a single evidence against any accused of instigating the crowd and rejected all the 350 evidence produced by the CBI against the 49 accused, of which 17 have died, under section 351 of the CrPC.

The judge also rejected the photographs presented as evidence by the CBI saying that there was no negative of the photos due to which its authenticity could not be examined. The audio and video cassettes were also not authentic and newspaper cuttings too could not be verified.
Among the key accused are BJP veteran and former deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani, Member of BJP Margdarshak Mandal Murli Manohar Joshi, Former cabinet minister Uma Bharti, Former UP chief minister Kalyan singh, Sitting BJP MP Sakashi Maharaj and BrijBhushan Saran singh and former MP Vinay Katiyar.

Just minutes after the demolition of Babri mosque on December 6,1992 , the first FIR was registered against unknown “kar sevaks” under section of the Criminal Law Amendment Act.

Ten minutes later, a second FIR (no. 198/92) was registered under sections 153A, 153B, 505 of IPC against LK Advani, Ashok Singhal, Giriraj Kishore, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar, Vishnu Hari Dalmiya and Sadhvi Ritambhara. This was for hate-and-provocative-speech case.

Forty-seven other FIRs were also registered in the days to come related to offences of assault on media persons, looting valuables like cameras and reporting gadgets from them, etc. All FIRs were filed at Thana Ramjanmabhoomi in Ayodhya.

From 2017 onwards a speedy hearing in the case started after several years of legal dispute and complications, as the charges were framed and trial on the joint charge sheet began. In between, with Kalyan Singh becoming the governor of Rajasthan, trial against him was stopped since he occupied a constitutional office.

However, last year, after he demitted the office of the governor, the trial against him also began. Last month most of the big names in the case including Advani, MM Joshi, Kalyan Singh, Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar and Champat Rai (general secretary of the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust) recorded their final statements under section 313 of CrPC.

The trial in the case was completed in first week of September after which the court fixed the date of September 30 for pronouncement of the verdict.

New Delhi , October 1,2020: Criminals, mafias and rapists are having a free run under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Uttar Pradesh government said Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Thursday after a gang-rape case was reported from Balrampur, following closely on the heels of the Hathras incident.
She demanded that the Centre impose President’s Rule in the state as the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led government had failed to protect the women in the state.
“After Hathras incident, I hoped the Uttar Pradesh government will take action against people committing crimes against women. But a similar crime has been committed against a Dalit student in Balrampur. Under BJP’s UP government, criminals, mafias and rapists are having a free run,” Mayawati told ANI here.
The BSP chief said that the incidents had shaken her to the core and therefore she had decided to talk to the media, “in an attempt to wake up the Centre if the UP government isn’t waking up.”
She also raised questions on the actions taken against criminals in UP in the past few years.
She further said that the two incidents in Hathras and Balrampur, reminded her of the Nirbhaya case of New Delhi.
The UP government has faced backlash after another Dalit woman lost her life due to gang rape in Balrampur district, a day after the cremation of the Hathras gangrape victim, who had succumbed to her injuries, was conducted by the administration.

Sept 28,2020: Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh on Sunday reiterated his stand that the farm bills were passed on September 20 as per procedure and the division of votes demanded by the Opposition could not be taken up as the House was not in order.

Reacting to a media report in this regard, the Deputy Chairman said that “as per rules and practice, in order to have a division, two things are essential”. “Firstly there should be a demand for division and equally important that there should be order in the House,” he said in a statement.
The Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, were passed in the Rajya Sabha by voice vote on September 20 amid a din.
Mr. Harivansh also put out a detailed chronology of events at the time of passage of the farm bills on September 20.

The Deputy Chairman also said, “I hold a constitutional position and therefore, cannot issue a formal rebuttal. I am bringing these facts to your notice and leave it to your conscience for your judgement.”

He was responding to a media report that said that official footage of Rajya Sabha TV shows that members K.K. Ragesh of CPI-M and Tiruchi Siva of DMK, were on their seats while demanding a division of votes to their motions, negating the Deputy Chairman’s claims that members were not on their seats at the time.

New Delhi, Sep 28,2020: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday that India is far from having achieved any kind of herd immunity, which necessitates that people should continue following the COVID-19 appropriate behaviour, as the country recorded another spike of 88,600 cases during the past 24 hours.

“ICMR’s Sero survey report should not create a sense of complacency in people”, the Minister averred.

As many as 94,503 people have lost their lives to the contagion so far, with 1,124 dying in just past one day.

New recoveries in the country have exceeded the new cases for several successive days during the period of the past nine days. There has been a steep increase in number of recovered patients. The single day recoveries on an average have been more than 90,000.

Total 92,043 recoveries were registered in the past 24 hours in the country. With this, the total number of recoveries are close to 50 lakh (49,41,627). Maintaining its upward trend, the national Recovery Rate stood at 82.46 per cent.

This high rate of daily recoveries has sustained India’s leading global position as the country with maximum number of recovered cases.

As the country records more recoveries than the new cases, the gap between the percentage of recovered cases and the active ones, is continuously increasing.

The figure currently nears 40 lakh (39,85,225).

The Health Minister, during his Sunday Samvaad, said ‘The Pandemic can only be fought when the Government and the society work together in tandem.’

On the emerging evidence that the disease not only impacts our lungs but other organ systems too, especially cardiovascular and renal, the Minister said the Ministry of Health has already set up committees of experts to look into these facets of COVID-19 and the ICMR is also studying this subject.

ICMR is also actively investigating and researching reports of reinfection and although the number of re-infection cases is negligible at this moment, the government is fully seized of the importance of the matter, he added.

Sept 24,2020: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the limit of using the State Disaster Response Fund for COVID specific infrastructure has been increased from 35 per cent to 50 per cent. He said, the decision will help States have more finances at their disposal to fight the virus.

Interacting with Chief Ministers of six states and one Union Territory through video conference, Mr Modi said, there is a need to further strengthen health infrastructure to tackle COVID. These States and UTs are Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. He reviewed the status and preparedness of COVID response and management. More than 63 per cent of the active cases of the country are concentrated in these six States and a Union Territory.

Sept 27,2020: Government of India is open to discuss protection available under Sixth Schedule of the constitution to Ladakh, said Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju at a press conference on Sunday. He said, “The delegation has agreed to withdraw their demand to boycott the elections.”

The People’s Movement, a platform representing various politicians, religious and social organisations campaigning for the Sixth Schedule for Ladakh, had on Tuesday announced a boycott of the upcoming elections to the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council-Leh, scheduled for October 16.

Mr. Rijiju said, “The delegation was assured that all issues related to land, jobs will be considered by the government. After 15 days of elections to Leh council, we will begin the process to consider their demand. Government of India is committed to empower Ladakh autonomous council in Leh and Kargil and would safeguard their interest.”

The Sixth Schedule protects tribal populations and provides autonomy to the communities through creation of autonomous development councils, which can frame laws on land, public health, agriculture etc. As of now 10 autonomous councils exist in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

Former Ladakh MP Thupstan Chhewang said, “Danger lurking on China border, the call to boycott elections might hurt us on that front, keeping that in mind we have decided to not boycott the elections.”

He added, “Our men are voluntarily helping the army at China border, 97% population in Ladakh is tribal, Centre has agreed to our demand partly, the provisions under Sixth schedule allow that. There will be no domicile law on the line of J&K for us, we have been assured by the Home Minister. Our population is 3 lakh, after 10 years we will be in minority. Non-tribals might exploit us.”

Manali (Himachal Pradesh) [India], October 2 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday inaugurate Atal Tunnel in Rohtang, which is the highest altitude tunnel in the world and has strategic significance.
The 9.02 km long tunnel will connect Manali to Lahaul-Spiti valley throughout the year. Earlier the road remained impacted for about six months every year owing to snowfall.
The tunnel is built with ultra-modern specifications in the Pir Panjal range of Himalayas at an altitude of 3000 metres (10,000 feet) from the Mean Sea Level (MSL).
It reduces the road distance by 46 km between Manali and Leh and the time by about four to five hours.
KP Purushothaman, Chief Engineer, Border Roads Organisation said the hard work by BRO in these many years has paid off and it is a very proud moment for everyone.
“This is very proud moment not only for BRO but the whole country. The hard work put in by BRO in the last 10 years is reaching the final stage. This tunnel is an example of Atmanirbhar Bharat,” Purushothaman told ANI.
The South Portal (SP) of Atal Tunnel is located at a distance of 25 km from Manali at an altitude of 3,060 metres, while the North Portal (NP) of the tunnel is located near village Teling, Sissu, in Lahaul Valley at an altitude of 3,071 Metres.
It is horseshoe-shaped, single tube double lane tunnel with a roadway of 8 metres. It has an overhead clearance of 5.525 metres.
Also, it is 10.5-metre wide and has a 3.6 x 2.25 metres fire-proof emergency egress tunnel built into the main tunnel itself.
Atal Tunnel has been designed for traffic density of 3000 cars per day and 1,500 trucks per day with max speed of 80 km/hr. It has the state of the art electromechanical system including semi transverse ventilation system.
The tunnel has ample safety features built into it including telephone connections at every 150 metres for emergency communication, fire hydrant mechanisms at every 60 Metres, auto incident detection system with CCTV cameras at every 250 metres, air quality monitoring at every one Km, evacuation lighting/exit signs and broadcasting system throughout the tunnel among others.
Speaking to ANI, S Paramasivan, Managing Director, AFCONS, which was the main construction company for the tunnel, said it is of very great importance both from the national defence angle and also from the international arena because this is the longest tunnel at this altitude in the world.
The historic decision to construct a strategic tunnel below the Rohtang Pass was taken on June 3, 2000 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister.
The foundation stone for the access road to the south portal of the tunnel was laid on May 26, 2002.
Officials said the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) worked relentlessly to overcome major geological, terrain and weather challenges that included the most difficult stretch of the 587-metre Seri Nalah Fault Zone. The breakthrough from both ends was achieved on October 15, 2017.
The Union Cabinet decided in 2019 to name the Rohtang Tunnel as Atal Tunnel to honour the contribution made by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

New Delhi, Sep 27,2020: Former union cabinet minister Jaswant Singh passed away on Sunday after a prolonged illness. He had cardiac arrest this morning.

He was 82.

Mr Singh was admitted to Army Hospital Research and Referral on June 25.

He was admitted on 25 Jun 2020 and being treated for Sepsis with Multiorgan Dysfunction Syndrome and effects of Severe Head Injury old (Optd) had a Cardiac arrest this morning.

“It is with profound grief that we inform about the sad demise of Hon’ble Major Jaswant Singh (Retd), former Cabinet Minister of Government of India at 0655 hours on 27 September 2020,” the Army Hospital Research and Referral said in a statement.

Despite the best efforts of the attending team of specialists to resuscitate him, he could not be revived and passed away today, it said.

His COVID status was negative.

Hailing from Rajasthan, Mr Singh had served as India’s foreign minister, defence minister and finance minister.

He was an officer in the Army in the 1950s and 60s but he resigned to pursue politics.

Sept 29,2020:The Centre has alerted all States to strengthen security arrangements in communally hyper-sensitive and sensitive districts to prevent possible clashes post the judgment in the Babri Masjid demolition case by a special court for CBI cases in Lucknow on September 30.

In an alert, the Union Government said that the judgment could have an impact on the law and order situation, as fringe elements on both sides might communalise the verdict. According to the alert, many Muslim organisations, unhappy with the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit case, were hoping that justice could still be done by convicting the accused in the demolition case. They might resort to protests if the verdict was not what they were hoping for, it said.

The alert claimed that while some radical groups were looking for an opportunity to revive the anti-CAA/NRC/NPR agitations in the country, Hindu organisations were hopeful that the accused in the demolition case would be acquitted. Since the situation was under strain in some States owing to communal issues, State governments should intensify security in sensitive districts and keep a close watch on provocative content in the social media, the Centre said.

New Delhi, Oct3,2020: Rich tributes were paid to father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversaries on Friday.

Various functions were organized across the country and abroad to mark the occasion. Centre and State governments launched a number of welfare schemes to commemorate the birth anniversaries of the two leaders.

The main function was held at Rajghat in the national capital where a host of dignitaries including President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi. An all religion prayer meeting was also organized at Rajghat this morning, where Bapu’s favourite bhajans were recited.

Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary is also observed as the International Day of Non-Violence.

The term of the 243-member Bihar Legislative Assembly comes to an end on November 29.

The Commission is also likely to announce the schedule for the by-election to one Lok Sabha and 64 Assembly seats spread across 15 states.

The bypoll to the Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat in Bihar has been pending.

New Delhi [India], September 28,2020: With 10 lakh recoveries in just 11 days, India’s total recoveries crossed 50 lakh-mark on Monday.
“India’s total recoveries cross the landmark milestone of 50 lakh. The rise from 1 lakh in June ’20 has been steep. The last 10 lakh recoveries were added in just 11 days,” said Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The ministry also informed that recovered cases have outpaced active cases by over five times.
“India has witnessed a very high level of more than 90,000 recoveries every day recently. Recovered cases have outpaced active cases by more than 5 times,” it said.
“The commendable feat has been achieved through enhanced medical infrastructure, implementation of the standard treatment protocol, full dedication and commitment of doctors, paramedics, and frontline workers,” the ministry said in a series of tweets.