Rs 600 cr to help tobacco ryots to take up herbal plantations
Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi laid foundation for an Ayurvedic centre for research on vector caused diseases here on Sunday.
By PTI |
VIJAYAWADA: Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi laid foundation for an Ayurvedic centre for research on vector caused diseases here on Sunday.
She said that Union Cabinet has approved to allocate Rs 600 crore to encourage medicinal plantations by tobacco farmers in the country. Central government is keen to discourage tobacco farming as part of anti-tobacco movement, Lakshmi said. It has decided to take up national medicinal plantations to promote medicinal plants as an alternative crop for tobacco, she added.
She said that as part of anti-tobacco movement, government also banned smoking in public places from October 2nd, and also decided to impose Rs 200 penalty on the ban violators. At the same time she sought the co-operation of the public to implement the ban.
The Union Minister said that Ayurveda, Homeo, Unani and Siddha physicians will be appointed at primary health centres (PHCs) to concentrate, particularly, on child and mother health care. She appealed to the public to be sincere on polio vaccinations which is still prevailing in our country inspite of anti-polio vaccine programme being administered on a large scale in the last decade.
436 cases of polio have already been identified and among them one from Andhra Pradesh in the recent days, she said. This is hight time to prevent the polio, she said. Earlier, the Union Minister administered polio drops to children and presented mosquito nets to beneficiaries. Vijayawada MP Rajagopal, City Mayor Mallika Begum were present.
She said that Union Cabinet has approved to allocate Rs 600 crore to encourage medicinal plantations by tobacco farmers in the country. Central government is keen to discourage tobacco farming as part of anti-tobacco movement, Lakshmi said. It has decided to take up national medicinal plantations to promote medicinal plants as an alternative crop for tobacco, she added.
She said that as part of anti-tobacco movement, government also banned smoking in public places from October 2nd, and also decided to impose Rs 200 penalty on the ban violators. At the same time she sought the co-operation of the public to implement the ban.
The Union Minister said that Ayurveda, Homeo, Unani and Siddha physicians will be appointed at primary health centres (PHCs) to concentrate, particularly, on child and mother health care. She appealed to the public to be sincere on polio vaccinations which is still prevailing in our country inspite of anti-polio vaccine programme being administered on a large scale in the last decade.
436 cases of polio have already been identified and among them one from Andhra Pradesh in the recent days, she said. This is hight time to prevent the polio, she said. Earlier, the Union Minister administered polio drops to children and presented mosquito nets to beneficiaries. Vijayawada MP Rajagopal, City Mayor Mallika Begum were present.
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