Janaagraha movement against MP Nalin Kumar Kateel in Mangaluru
Mangaluru, Dec 12: CPM senior leader K.R Sriyan alleged that though people in the district have been facing several problems, Lok Sabha Member Nalin Kumar Kateel, despite representing the constituency for twice, has failed to respond to the public issues.
Inaugurating Janaagraha movement condemning the failure of the MP in beedi workers minimum wages and allowances, sand problem, illegal tollgate, over-bridge and national highway, and the worst politics of BJP in Sabarimala issue, in front of the deputy commissioner’s office here on Wednesday, he said that the BJP has been trying to get votes in the name of Rama Mandir, Sabarimala and Hindutva. But the result of assembly elections in five states announced on Tuesday taught a befitting reply to the BJP.
MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has been speaking in the tone of BJP’s Hindu communalist mentality and trying to polarize the people in the same ideology. When the Kerala government has been taking measures to ensure democratic rights of women following the Supreme Court order, the MP after he had been to Kerala engaged in false propaganda saying that there was an emergency and Jallianwala Bagh situation, he alleged.
The Lok Sabha Member has no concerns towards the problems of the people. The owners of Beedi companies have not taken steps to give the dues of allowances or minimum wages to over 2.5 lakh beedi workers in the district. Though the beedi workers have staged protests for several times, the MP has not responded.
Due to scarcity of sand, the construction workers have no jobs and earnings. Though the MP was aware of the fact that sand mafia was responsible for such a situation, he has not taken any steps to solve it, he alleged.
The construction of over bridge and service roads on highways was not yet completed even after eight years and this situation has been causing accidents. But the contractors have constructed the toll-gate and collecting the toll fee. People have been opposing it. But the MP has been shirking from his responsibility, he alleged.
CPM district secretary Vasanth Achary, State council members J Balakrishna Shetty and Yadava Shetty, Leaders U.B Lokaiah, Krishnappa Salian spoke on the occasion.
CPM district committee members Vasudev Uchhila, Jayanti Shetty, Robert D’Souza, Sadashiva Das, Dayanand Shetty, Jayanth Naiki, Ramanna Vittla, Yogish Jappinamogaru, Bharati Bolar and others led the protest.
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Doctors who died on duty during COVID-19 entitled to insurance under PMGKY: SC
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New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court held on Thursday that the families of the doctors who died while doing their duties during the COVID-19 pandemic are entitled to an insurance coverage of Rs 50 lakh under the "Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana".
A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and R Mahadevan set aside a Bombay High Court judgment that had held that private doctors were not entitled to the coverage under the government's insurance scheme.
"There is a requisition of the services of doctors and this is evident from the conjoint reading of the provisions of the Act, the Maharashtra Prevention and Containment of COVID-19 Regulations 2020, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation Order dated March 31, 2020, the PMGKY-Package Scheme, the explanatory communication to the PMGKY policy and the FAQs released," the bench said.
It said the invocation of laws and regulations was intended to leave no stone unturned in requisitioning the doctors and the insurance scheme was equally intended to assure doctors and health professionals in the frontline that the country is with them.
The court said individual claims for insurance made under the PMGKY-Package will be considered and decided in accordance with the law and on the basis of evidence.
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"The onus to prove that a deceased lost his life while performing a COVID-19-related duty is on the claimant and the same needs to be established on the basis of credible evidence," it added.
The top court was hearing a plea moved by Pradeep Arora and others against a March 9, 2021, order of the Bombay High Court that held that private hospital staffers were not entitled to receive benefits under the insurance scheme unless their services were requisitioned by the state or the central government.
A plea was filed in the high court by Kiran Bhaskar Surgade, who lost her husband -- who ran a private clinic in Maharashtra's Thane -- to COVID-19 in 2020.
The insurance company rejected her claim under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP) on the ground that her husband's clinic was not recognised as a COVID-19 hospital.
The PMGKP was announced in March 2020 and its coverage has since been extended.
It was launched to provide a safety net to health workers to ensure that in case of any adversity due to COVID-19, their families are taken care of.
An insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh is provided to the health workers under the PMGKP, which has become a safety net for the dependents of the Covid warriors who lost their lives to the infection.
