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                                         covid-19 crisis




                                          cOurts







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           as the government fails to contain the spread of virus or provide relief to the nation,

             the supreme court sets up a committee to oversee the distribution of oxygen and

                                  medicines as various high courts pull up the government





        Our Bureau
        New Delhi

               here is no other way of
               putting it. The Indian
        Tgovernment has not been
        able  to  give  much  confidence
        to its people as they face the
        biggest crisis of their life. On
        social media, ordinary Indians
        are complaining that they feel
        abandoned by the government.
        Top ministers are making  ef-
        forts – and noise – about what
        the government is doing but the
        situation on the ground is ter-
        rible. There is no leadership at
        the moment.
            In the vacuum, the country’s
        courts – high courts and the Su-
        preme Court – have stepped in
        to guide the government by in-
        structing, chiding and warning
        it. It started with high courts of
        various states and then Supreme
        Court too started asking very
        tough question  of the govern-
        ment.                                 a COViD19 patient takes a breath with oxygen support for free at a Gurudwara (Sikh temple), amidst the spread
            In a major development on                                   of coronavirus disease, in Ghaziabad, on Thursday. (ani)
        Saturday, the Supreme Court          retary to the Union government  ensure preparedness for future           beyond finding ad-hoc solutions
        set up a twelve-member Nation-       as its convenor, the Court or- emergencies.                              to present problems.
        al Task Force (NTF) to facili-
        tate a public health response to     dered.                                  The order was passed by a            Earlier on Friday, the Su-
        COVID-19  based  on  scientific         The NTF will specifically ad- Bench of Justices DY Chan-              preme Court had told the Cen-
        and specialized domain knowl-        dress issues relating to stream- dradhud and MR Shah. Explain-           tre that it has to ensure supply of
                                                                                                                      700 MT of oxygen to Delhi on
                                             lining of oxygen allocation to dif- ing the rationale behind setting
        edge. The NTF, which has med-        ferent states, review and suggest  up the NTF, the Court said that       a daily basis until further direc-
        ical experts and doctors from        measures to ensure availability  the establishment of such a task        tions from the court, and made
        across the country as its mem-       of essential drugs and medicines,  force will enable  the decision       it clear it will not be shy of tak-
        bers, will have the Cabinet Sec-
                                             and adopt remedial measures to  makers to have inputs which go              Continued on next page... >>


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