No state should deny Rs 50,000 ex-gratia to kin of those who lost lives to COVID-19: SCThe amount shall be provided by the concerned states from the State Disaster Response Fund and is to be disbursed by the District Disaster ...
04 Oct, 2021, 09.30 PM IST
No state should deny Rs 50,000 ex-gratia to kin of those who lost lives to COVID-19: SC"No states shall deny ex gratia on ground that in death certificate cause of death is not mentioned that 'died due to COVID'," SC bench sai...
04 Oct, 2021, 04.00 PM IST
Health ministry, ICMR have issued guidelines for 'official document' for Covid deaths: Centre to SCAccording to the guidelines, the deaths occurring due to poisoning, suicide, homicide and deaths due to accident, among others, will not be...
11 Sep, 2021, 10.54 PM IST
E-commerce market's revenue stood at $56.6 billion in FY21, says Choubey citing NasscomThis was informed by Minister of State for Food and Consumer Affairs Ashwini Kumar Choubey in the Rajya Sabha in a written reply to a quest...
03 Aug, 2021, 08.44 PM IST
Govt got over 28,000 public grievances in past three months, 19,694 disposed ofMinister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said despite the second wave being more severe than the first one, the Department of Adminis...
04 Jun, 2021, 09.55 PM IST
Handling Covid-19 grievances: West Bengal at bottomBihar, Odisha, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra also have considerable course correction to make, as per the data compiled by the Dep...
07 May, 2021, 09.40 AM IST
Insurers can act against hospitals saying no to cashless coronavirus treatment: IRDAIThe regulator has also asked insurance companies to set up an exclusive grievance redressal system to solve the challenges faced by policyh...
15 Jul, 2020, 10.54 AM IST
8 states contributed 85 per cent COVID-19 caseload, 87 per cent deaths: Health MinistryThe ministry said it briefed the Group of Ministers on COVID-19 on the coronavirus situation in the country and the efforts to boost health...
27 Jun, 2020, 04.55 PM IST
In war, you don't make soldiers unhappy, says Supreme Court on non-payment of salaries to doctorsThe top court was hearing a plea by a doctor, who alleged that front line healthcare workers engaged in fight against Covid-19 are not bein...
12 Jun, 2020, 01.49 PM IST
UGC asks universities to set up grievance redressal cell for COVID-19 related concerns"In accordance with the earlier guidelines, all universities have been advised to plan their academic activities keeping in view safety and...
11 May, 2020, 01.56 PM IST
Over 52,000 COVID-related public grievances redressed by Centre, states: GovernmentThe Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances' (DARPG) COVID-19 public grievances monitor had seen a disposal of 52,327 ca...
05 May, 2020, 07.49 PM IST
With surge in NRI calls, Centre-appointed panel asks govt departments, states to address complaintsHead of the panel, senior bureaucrat K Shivaji, said as of now over 77,000 complaints have been sent in by people to state government and c...
04 May, 2020, 09.19 PM IST
Santosh Gangwar asks to states to coordinate with control rooms to resolve workers' grievancesThese workers grievance redressal centres were set up after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced extension of the nationwide lockdown...
18 Apr, 2020, 02.50 PM IST
Healthcare workers are warriors, will set up helpline to redress of complaints: Centre to SCA bench of Justices N V Ramana, S K Kaul and B R Gavai disposed of a batch of petitions including that United Nurses Association (UNA) seek...
15 Apr, 2020, 03.13 PM IST
Labour ministry sets up 20 control rooms under CLS to address wage related grievances"These call centers can be accessed by the workers through phone numbers, whatsapp and emails," labour ministry said in a statement on Tues...
14 Apr, 2020, 01.14 PM IST
Covid-19: Empowered groups taking steps for stranded labourersThe empowered group on supplies and logistics, headed by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation secretary Parameswaran Iyer, and the log...
01 Apr, 2020, 12.49 AM IST
Government to finalise report on COVID-19 preparedness survey based on responses from 266 IAS officersThe DARPG would lay down guidelines for all central ministries/departments and state governments for improved monitoring of public grievanc...
31 Mar, 2020, 05.23 PM IST