The Allahabad High Court has ordered the state authorities to reply inside 15 days to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition searching for particulars of the way it plans to sort out the COVID-19 pandemic within the coming days.
A division bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Yadav and Justice Prakash Padia on Thursday requested the state to file an affidavit disclosing the current place with respect to the motion taken by the state authorities to sort out the problem of the pandemic throughout the state. It additionally sought particulars of “future plans to meet future challenges”, and “steps taken by the state government to upgrade primary health centers and community health centers across the state”.
The state authorities advised the court docket that it’s “regularly monitoring the pandemic situation through the Integrated COVID Control and Health Command Centre, Swasthya Bhawan”. The Government submitted that 73 COVID hospitals had been established in Lucknow district, and 33 L-1, 23 L-2 and 12 L-3 hospitals had been functioning within the capital area.
The authorities, in an affidavit filed on May 27, had knowledgeable the court docket concerning the steps taken to manage the scenario in Bahraich, Bijnor, Barabanki, Shravasti and Jaunpur districts. In an affidavit on June 7, the administration apprised the court docket of the motion taken in Bhadohi, Ghazipur, Ballia, Deoria and Shamli districts.
The court docket has directed the federal government to make sure strict compliance of the orders issued by the state sometimes to fulfill the challenges on the state, divisional, district and village ranges. The court docket mentioned that “action should be taken against those who are found to be dereliction of duty and in violation of orders passed by the State from time to time”.
The subsequent listening to of the case shall be on July 8.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
