MACP JOINT COMMITTEE MEETING AND DECISIONS.

 

   The joint Committee set up by the National Anomaly Committee to consider the MACP related issues met on 27th July, 2012. The Staff Side was represented at the meeting by the following comrades:
 
Com. M. Raghaviah
Com. Umraomal Purohit
Com. S.K. Vyas
Com. C. Srikumar
Com. K.K.N. Kutty
Com. Shivgopal Misra
Com. Bhosle
 
   The report prepared by the sub-committee after three rounds of discussions was reviewed at the meeting. The points that came up for discussion and the decisions taken are as under:-

Distribution of Life Saving Medicines/Anti Cancer Medicines to CGHS beneficiaries in NCR towns at Wellness Center level.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF CGHS

NIRMAN BHAWAN, MAULANA AZAD ROAD
NEW DELHI 110 108.

No: F.No. 1-32/2012-13/CGHS/MSD/IMP

Dated the 24th July, 2012.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Distribution of Life Saving Medicines/Anti Cancer Medicines to CGHS beneficiaries in NCR towns at Wellness Center level.

   The undersigned is directed to refer to the subject mentioned above and to state that the Ministry has been receiving requests from CGHS beneficiaries residing in the NCR towns of NOIDA, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Faridabad, for providing the delivery of life saving medicines / anti cancer medicines at the CGHS Wellness Centre level as against the present system in which these are provided at the Medical Store Depot (MSD). Gole Market, New Delhi. In view of the hardships faced by the CGHS beneficiaries in collecting the above medicines, it has been considered sympathetically by the Ministry and it has now been decided to arrange delivery of the life saving drugs and anti cancer drugs to the CGHS beneficiaries in the above cities at the CGHS Wellness Centre level.

Train accident: 32 charred to death on board Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu express; railway minister hints at sabotage.

   NELLORE (ANDHRA PRADESH): Thirty-two people were on Monday charred to death and 25 others injured when a fire broke out in a coach of New Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express near here with railway minister Mukul Roy indicating that there could have been a blast.

   Additional DG railways VSK Kaumudi said that 32 bodies have been recovered so far from the charred S-11 bogie of the train.

   South Central Railway officials in Hyderabad said 25 people have been injured in the disaster and have been admitted to different hospitals.

   The Nellore station manager noticed the fire in one of the bogies of the train at 4.15am and alerted officials. Two fire tenders were rushed to the spot immediately to put out the fire and they managed to restrict the blaze to the S-11 bogie, they said.

   In Kolkata, the railway minister said, "Some of the injured passengers admitted to hospitals and a gateman at one of the level crossings near Nellore station heard a loud sound when the fire occurred in the coach".

   Roy said that the divisional railway manager had also said that there was a report of a blast even as the minister maintained that nothing can be "excluded" as to what caused the fire.