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Gorakhpur (UP) Mar 5 :  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of projects worth Rs 131 crore in Maharajganj district and claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made India "corruption-free".

Adityanath also praised the soldiers and said: "Terrorists don't understand the language of love, so Indian soldiers did 'Shiv Tandav' with surgical strike." 

"Actually, a lot of terrorists were killed during surgical strike but Pakistan is hiding the facts," he claimed at an event on Monday.

Criticising the previous government, Adityanath said: "The Modi government started several welfare schemes for poor and realised the dream of corruption-free India." He also instructed the officials to complete all development works of the state as soon as possible.

The chief minister visited Deoria later, where he inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of projects worth Rs 71 crore. He said India would be among the three big economies in the world if Modi becomes the prime minister for five more years.

"During Congress regime, India stood at number 11 in respect to economy (in the world), but during the Modi government, it rose to the sixth position... After return to power, he will bring it to number 3 slot," he said.

Describing Nepal as a friend country, Adityanath said: "We are working on roads construction at Indo-Nepal border.  [Agencies]
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Gorakhpur (UP), Aug 10: Inmates of an old age shelter home run by 'Ma Vindhyavasini Mahila Prasikshan Evam Samaj Seva Sansthan' were taken to the BRD Medical college here for a health check-up as they seemed to be in a feeble state of mind.

The organisation has come under scanner after girls were rescued from a shelter home run by it in Deoria following allegations of sexual exploitation of inmates.

After the old age home at Rajla in Deoria district was sealed by the administration, the inmates were sent to a shelter home at (Samaj Kalyan Vriddha Ashram) in Kushinagar.

Since 22 inmates of the old age home seemed to be in a feeble state of mind, Dinesh Mishra, the manager of the old age home in Kushinagar, took them to the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur yesterday afternoon.

"The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Kushinagar district said that 21 female inmates and one male inmate of the old age home was unfit. The medical college did not admit the inmates and at around 7.30 pm, they told us to take back the inmates after giving medicines to them," Mishra told reporters here.

When contacted, principal of the medical college Ganesh Kumar said, "Old age is not a disease and the doctors may have found them fit during tests, so they have not admitted them."

Twenty-four girls were rescued from a shelter home in Deoria on August 6 after allegation of sexual exploitation of the inmates came to light. On On August 7 the Uttar Pradesh government recommended a CBI inquiry into the case hours after a girl missing from there was found at an old age home run by the same NGO in Gorakhpur.

When the police raided the Deoria shelter on Sunday night, a rescued inmate had told them that some girls from there used to be taken to Gorakhpur, and then brought back the next day.

All the three shelter homes run by the NGO have been sealed. (PTI)
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Gorakhpur (UP), Aug 3: The Samajwadi Party today accused the Uttar Pradesh government of encouraging corrupt practices at Gorakhpur's state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College, where nearly 60 children died allegedly due to disruption in supply of liquid oxygen last year.

"Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath says his government has zero tolerance for corruption. But in his home town, BRD Medical College is involved in a scam of Rs 5 lakh per month in purchase of liquid oxygen," SP district president Prahlad Yadav said.

"During previous governments, the medical college used to purchase liquid oxygen at the rate of Rs 16.50 per litre. After August 10 last year, the hospital started purchasing liquid oxygen directly from a company in Rajasthan at the rate of Rs 19.39 per litre. The consumption of liquid oxygen at the college is from 1.20 lakh to 1.50 lakh litre liquid oxygen gas per month. During peak months like August, the consumption is even more," Yadav said, alleging a scam of around Rs 5 lakh per month.

Asked about the source of his information, Yadav did not offer any.

"We have our sources and we know it. If government wants to say something, they should come out with proof to deny the allegations made by us."

More than 60 children, mostly infants, died at the hospital within a week in August 2017. There were allegations that the deaths occurred due to disruption in oxygen supply over unpaid bills to the vendor. The state government had vehemently denied that a shortage of oxygen led to the deaths.

The district president also said that the state government was not making hospital data public and maintaining secrecy. During the previous Akhilesh Yadav government, directions were given to the hospital to release admission, death and recovery data by 4 pm every day.

When BJP Mahanagar president Rahul Srivastav was asked about the issue, he said, "All allegations made by the SP leader are baseless. The rates (of liquid oxygen) have increased due to GST." (PTI)
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Gorakhpur (UP), Jul 28: A consignment of fertilizer took almost four years to travel a distance 1,326 km and reach its destination, courtesy the railways.

A goods train wagon carrying 1,316 bags of Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertilizer was booked on November 10, 2014. When it reached Basti railway station in Uttar Pradesh from Vishakhapatnam on Wednesday around 3.30 pm, even the rail officials and staff were taken by surprise.

The distance is otherwise covered in 42 hours and 13 minutes.

The Chief Public Relation Officer of North Eastern Railway zone, Sanjay Yadav, said, "Sometimes, when some wagon or bogie becomes sick (unfit to ferry), it is sent to the yard and it seems that the same happened in this case too."

The consignee is Ramchandra Gupta, a businessman of Basti, and the wagon was booked in his name in 2014 from Vishakhapatnam through Indian Potash limited (IPL), Yadav said.

When contacted, Gupta said, "It was company material and I had not paid for it. The matter is between the company and the Indian railway."

IPL Assistant Marketing Manager in Gorakhpur, DK Saxena said, "Yes, in November 2014 a rake was booked from Vishkhapatnam for Basti area distributers and somehow the wagon was missed from the rake."

Saxena said Gupta is the handling and buffer agent of the company and the cost of the material is Rs 14 lakh.

The company has already lodged claim on Railways and we will receive the consignment after assessment of the material, he said. (PTI)
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Gorakhpur (UP), Jul 28: Presenting an example of communal harmony, a group of 70 kanwariyas, which include 15 Muslims, from Kushahari village in neighbouring Deoria district began their journey for Baba Dham in Jharkhand's Deoghar district.

Kanwar Yatra is an annual pilgrimage undertaken by Lord Shiva's devotees, also known as kanwariyas. The devotees from Kushahari village will reach Sultanganj in Bihar, from where they would collect water of the Ganga river and walk around 104 km to Baba Dham, to offer the water to the deity at Baidyanath Jyotirlinga temple.

Village head Nizam Ansari, who initiated the unique programme, and some others of his faith wore saffron clothes and joined the yatra on their own expense.

Flagging off the yatra yesterday, Sanjiv Shukla, a leading social worker of the area said, "This is the real example of Ganga-Jamuni culture of India. We should all take lesson from it and give preference to love and peace over hatred."

Ansari said, "I want all the people of my village to participate in functions related to all religions... this will provide us more opportunities to come closer and serve the society. I want blessings of people and development of my village." (PTI)
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Gorakhpur (UP), May 30 :  The world's largest publisher of Hindu religion books- the Gita Press in Gorakhpur - has decided to publish the Mahabharata in Telugu to benefit

non-Hindi and non-Sanskrit speaking people.

"The process (of bringing out Telugu version) is underway and most probably the book will be in the market within 15 days," Production Manager, Gita Press, Lal Mani Tripathi said.

The Gita Press is already publishing 1,800 types of books in 15 languages including Urdu.

"For the last 6-7 years two scholars were translating the Mahabharata in Telugu voluntarily and it was completed a few years back. But due to high work pressure, we were not able to publish it. Now the press has decided to finally publish the Mahabharata in Telugu.

"There will be 7 khands (part) of the book in the form of separate books and 800 copies of first part is complete. Most probably the first part of the book will be in market in 15 days. The people who know Telugu will be able to read it," Tripathi said.

The shlokas in Sanskrit will be in Telugu script and tika (meaning) of the shloka written below the sholka will be in Telugu language. We will publish 2,000 copies of each part of the book so there will be total 14,000 copies initially. Each part will have eight pictures based on the stories described in the book," he said.

The price of each part will be Rs 400 and there will be 1,072 pages in first part, 960 in second, 832 in third, 1,168 in fourth, 800 in fifth, 1,184 in sixth and 1,232 pages in seventh part," he said.

In 1955 Gita Press published Mahabharata in Hindi in six parts and since then 4.75 lakh books have been published.

The Gita Press also publishes the Gita in Urdu and 10,000 copies have been published since 2002 and 4-5 days before the pious month of Ramzan the press published 2,000 more copies of Gita in Urdu with Devnagri script, Tripathi said.

Asked if there was any demand from any quarter for publishing the Mahabharata in Telugu of if some donation was given to the press, he said, "We don't publish books keeping in view their demand. We are conserving our great books and we publish it. We don't take donations and we aim to provide books at lowest price and we balance the losses with revenue generation by selling clothes and Aryuvedic medicines at Gita Vastra Vibhag at the Gita Press building." 

50 books are uploaded at Gita press official website and the press is planning to upload more.

"We have uploaded 50 books at present on our website http://gitapress.org in Hindi, English, Gujarati, Telugu, Odia, Bangla, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Asamiya and Malyalam and we are planning to upload in Urdu language too. Our magazine online Kalyan has now two lakh subscribers. We started publishing translation of Gita and Ramcharitmanas in Urdu language eight years ago and we have published 10,000 books so far," he said.

Three years ago, the press was locked for some days when employees went on a strike demanding hike in salary and other issues and there were rumours that the press is at the verge of closure.

The manager of the press ruled out any such possibility.

"Yes there were some issues in the press related to staff two years back but it is resolved now and there is no chance of closure of the press, we are rather planning to expand it," he said.PTI
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Kushinagar, Apr 26: At least 13 schoolchildren were killed and several others injured when their van was hit by a train at an unmanned railway crossing here on Thursday morning.
According to DGP OP Singh, around 13 children and the driver of the van were killed in the accident 
"All relief teams have reached the spot. NDRF team is also expected to reach the spot," he said.
The van of Divine Public School with around 20 students was crossing the unmanned Dudhi railway crossing to reach the school under Vishnupura police station area when it was hit by Siwan-Gorakhpur passenger train.
The DGP said that the injured children have been rushed to the district hospital.
However, the number of casualty could increase as seven children are critically injured.
Divisional Commissioner of Gorakhpur has rushed to the spot ,which is around 22 kms from Padrauna.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed his grief over the tragedy.
He has ordered a high-level probe by Divisional Commissioner of Gorakhpur and announced Rs 2 lakh each as compensation to the victims' kin.
"In an unfortunate train accident of schoolchildren in Kushinagar where students of Divine Public School have died. The CM has expressed his deepest condolences on this very unfortunate incident and directed the District Administration to provide all possible help and medical aid to the affected children," said principal secretary Information Avinash Awasthi.
Cutting short his Amroha trip, Mr Adityanath has left for Kushinagar to meet the bereaved families. UNI 
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Gorakhpur, Mar 14: Confusion prevailed in the prestigious Gorakhpur Lok Sabha bypoll counting trend even as after three round the opposition Samajwadi Party candidate was reported to be leading by around 1523 votes.
The counting process in Gorakhpur was disrupted for 20 minutes as the authorities removed all the media persons from the counting centre.
The supporters of the SP and others also raised slogans against the district authorities outside the counting centre alleging their biased role.
In Lucknow too, UP assembly was adjourned over the Gorakhpur counting issue following ruckus by the opposition.
Though nine round of counting has been completed but the results of only upto three rounds were announced.
After three round of counting SP's Praveen Kumar Nishad leading by 1523. He has received 44,979 votes while BJP's Upendra Dutt Shukla was second with 43,456 votes.
Meanwhile in Phulpur lok Sabha seat, SP's Nagendra Singh has taken a comfortable lead of 12231 votes against his nearest BJP candidate Kaushlendra Sing Patel after nine round of counting. UNI
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Gorakhpur,  Mar 2: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath enjoyed festival of colours here at Gorakhnath math after performing rituals with sants and devotees on Friday. It was first Holi celebration of Mahant Adityanath as UP CM.
Amid chanting of Vadic mantras, Hawan and Holika Dahan devotees spread ‘gulaal’ and flowers. Thousands of devotees thronged at math since last night and folk songs were rhymed whole night with ‘Dholak and Manjeera’. Mahant Adiyanath came out of math around 8 in morning and performed rituals with chief priest of temple Yogi Kamal Nath, secretary Dwarika Tewari, math purohit Acharya Ramanuj and other priests.
CM Yogi pasted tilak with ash of the Holika on devotees and enjoyed folk songs ‘Phagua’ in math. CM Yogi along with hundreds followers joined Narsingh Shobha Yatra which started from Ghantaghar and passed through entire city. Yatra procession, a 70 years old tradition, always lead by Mahant of the Math.
CM Yogi also distributed sweets and traditional ‘Gujhiya’ among devotees and children. Gulal, colours and flowers were thrown on people in Yatra. CM Yogi had warned people for not making any unpleasant move during Holi celebration amid fervour. 
Adequate security arrangements were made for Holi celebration and Shobha Yatra procession in city. Whole city was divided into three zones and nine sectors and more than 6,000 policemen along with other security forces personals were deployed to deal with any untoward situation during celebrations. UNI
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New Delhi, Feb 9: Election Commission on Friday announced by-election to two Lok Sabha seats -- Gorakhpur and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh on March 11.
According to the official release here on Friday, the notification for the bypolls would be issued on February 13.
The Gorakhpur seat was vacated by UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath while the Phulpur seat by deputy state CM Keshav Prasad Maurya.
As per the programme, the last date for filing of nominations is February 20 while on the next day, the papers would be scrutinised. February 23 is the last date for withdrawal of the papers.
The polling would be held on March 11 and counting of votes would be taken up on March 14. UNI
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Lucknow, Nov 22: Polling for the first phase of election to 230 local bodies in the crucial civic polls in Uttar Pradesh started on Wednesday morning at 0730 hrs with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath being the first VVIP to cast his vote in Gorakhpur.
Amid tight security arrangements, the polling started on a brisk note with people reaching their respective polling booths after their morning walk. In the first hour of polling, around six per cent of the 1.09 crore electorate have exercised their franchise at 11,683 polling booths. Mr Adityanath cast his vote at girl's primary school near Gorakhnath temple at around 0800 hrs. The elections to local bodies in 24 districts in the first phase are being viewed as a test for the Chief Minister, with all eyes on Ayodhya where the opposition Samajwadi Party has fielded a transgender for the mayoral contest. State Election Commissioner S K Agarwal said on Wednesday that polling has commenced on a smooth note. He said while polling in five mayor seats are being held through electronic voting machines, rest will be done through traditional ballot papers. The polling will end at 1700 hrs. The districts, where elections are being held are, Shamli, Meerut, Hapur, Bijnore, Badaun, Hathras, Kasganj, Agra, Kanpur, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Chitrakoot, Kaushambi, Pratapgarh, Unnao, Hardoi, Amethi, Faizabad, Gonda, Basti, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh, Ghazipur and naxal-affected Sonebhadra. "Webcasting, CCTV Cameras, videography and other arrangements were in place to ensure transparency for free and fair polls at the polling booths," Mr Agarwal said. He said around 10 per cent of the polling booths are hyper-sensitives.
Mr Agarwal said reports of malfunctioning of EVMs in some area has been reported and these have been replaced. The state government has made elaborate security and other arrangements for the elections with deployment of 40 companies of central paramilitary, 75 companies of PAC and around 62,000 other policemen. Besides, 1,072 sector magistrates and 383 zonal magistrates will ensure the free and fair polls. As many as 1,091 polling booths are holding web casting. The second and third phase of voting would be held on November 26 and 29. Counting has been scheduled for December 1 and the results are expected to be declared the same evening.
In the first phase, five municipal corporations, 71 municipalities, and 154 urban local bodies will go to the hustings and corporators and municipal councillors. UNI
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Gorakhpur, Nov 22: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday claimed that opposition parties have almost accepted their defeat in the state civic polls and only BJP can provide better urban facilities to the citizens.
" BJP is set to repeat the feat of the 2017 Assembly polls as people are supporting the party candidates in the entire state," he said. The Chief Minister was speaking to media after casting his vote at the primary girls school polling booth near Gorakhnath temple. Mr Adityanath was among the first VVIPs in the state to cast his vote after the polling started at 0730 hrs. "The opposition stands nowhere in these elections and have almost given walkover to BJP. The poll trends are in favour of the BJP candidates", the Chief Minister said, and ensured people that the party was committed to uplift of basic infrastructure in the urban areas. "We will strengthen the local bodies and focus on solving problems of the street vendors and run anti-encroachment drive to end traffic snarls," he said, adding that the schemes like Smart Cities Mission, AMRUIT and Deen Dayal Upadhyay will end the miseries of the urban population. He also said that the local bodies would be made more powerful. He would be campaigning in Allahabad and Varanasi today where polling for the civic polls are scheduled in on November 26 and 29. Counting of votes of all the three phases would be taken up on December 1. UNI
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Gorakhpur, Nov 6: As many as 58 infant deaths have been reported from the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College here within four days. Death of 30 children in a day at this medical college had stunned the country in August. Confirming the deaths, Professor Dr DK Srivastava, Head of the department of Community Medicine Srivastava told reporters on Monday that 58 babies have died between November 1 to 4. He said while 32 infants were younger than one month and 26 others more than a month old. The BRD medical college attracted global attention when more than 60 children, including infants, died at the hospital within a span of a week in August. At least 30 children died in day only due to shortage of oxygen. This year, there have been a total of 1,317 deaths in the hospital so far. Sixty-nine deaths had been reported at the hospital in the four days between October 7 and 10. According to hospital records, in January, 152 children died, in February 122, March 159, April 123, May 139, June 137, July 128 and August 325. Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) have been creating havoc in eastern UP for years. The most severely affected districts are Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Kushinagar, Basti, Siddharthanagar, Sant Kabir Nagar, Deoria and Mau. As per the data on the website of the Directorate of National Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), in 2010, UP reported 3,540 cases of AES, which claimed 494 lives. JE saw 325 cases being reported in that year, and 59 lives were lost. Similarly in 2011, 579 deaths in 3,492 cases of AES were reported, while JE claimed 27 lives out of 224 cases. In 2012, 3,484 cases of AES were reported and 557 patients died, while 139 cases of JE and 23 deaths were also reported. The AES death toll breached the 600 mark for the first time in 2013 when 609 out of 3,096 cases reported, resulted in deaths. JE deaths too crossed the 40-figure-mark in the same year with 47 deaths reported in 281 cases.  In 2014, out of the 3,329 AES cases reported while for JE, it was 34 deaths out of 191 cases. In 2015, as many as 479 lives were lost due to AES out of 2,894 cases reported. JE claimed 42 lives from the 351 reported cases, according to the official data. In 2016, 3,919 cases of AES were reported in which 621 lives were lost. The death toll due to JE stood at an all time high of 73 out of 410 cases reported. UNI
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Lucknow, Nov 6: The Lok Gathbandhan Party (LGP) on Monday expressed deep concern over continued deaths of children in BRD Medical College Gorakhpur. The party holding the medical college administration, the UP medical and health services and UP medical education department fully responsible for these deaths said even after lapse of more than three months of continued deaths no corrective measures have been taken to save ailing children. According to information, during the past few days at least 58 more children have died in this medical college.
The party spokesperson in a statement here on Monday said it is gross criminal negligence on part of the medical college and the state government officers and called for strict action against all those responsible for this. The spokesperson recalled that during August- September this year nearly three dozen children and some other patients died due to sudden disruption of oxygen supply in different wards of this medical college. Thereafter there have been regular reports of deaths of children every now and then, during the last three months, which reflected the utter negligence and apathy on part of the government and its concerned departments. The party, expressing deep anguish and concern over the continued deaths, has asked the UP government to launch a drive all over the state to ensure supply of all types of life saving drugs, oxygen cylinders and various other important equipment, necessary to save precious lives of children and the other patients. The spokesperson said 'despite spending millions from the Government exchequer on medical and health services of the state annually, the facilities available are utterly inadequate and mismanaged. The situation in rural areas is especially a matter of grave concern.' The departments responsible for medical education and health services in the state require urgent reorganisation and weeding out of massive corruption prevailing in them. Unless the departments of Medical Education and Medical and Health Services of the state are taken to task by the state government, such deaths will continue to occur. UNI
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Gorakhpur, Sep 2: Amid deaths of children at the BRD Medical College hospital continuing to hog the limelight, the special task force(STF) of Uttar Pradesh today arrested the third accused Dr Kafeel Khan in connection with the last month's incident in which more than 60 children died due to shortage of oxygen supply. Dr Kafeel was among the nine people against whom the UP government had filed an FIR for negligence. Confirming the arrest in Lucknow, Additional director General of Police (Law and Order) Anand Kumar said that the STF arrested the suspended doctor, a former in-charge of the encephalitis department, when he was trying to flee out of Gorakhpur. A local court here had yesterday issued a non-bailable warrant against seven people, including Dr Kafeel, after their whereabouts were not found by the police. Early this week, the suspended principal of the BRD Medical college Rajiv Mishra and his wife Dr Purnima Shukla were arrested on August 29 from Kanpur. The couple are presently in jail under judicial custody. Though the UP government as well as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath refused to accept that the deaths took place due to shortage of oxygen supply in the ICU on August 9 and 10, but surprisingly all the arrests were made holding these people responsible for the tragedy. UNI
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Gorakhpur, Aug 30: Forty two children have died in the Baba Raghav Das Medical College (BRD) Hospital in last 46 hours. "42 children died in 48 hours of which 7 due to encephalitis, rest due to other reason” Dr PK Singh Principal BRD medical college confirmed. Mr Singh said that from August 26 midnight to August 27 midnight 6 deaths were reported from NICU, while 11 deaths were reported from ICU. While till August 28 midnight 10 deaths were reported from NICU and 15 from ICU. So in 48 hours total 42 deaths were reported. BRD Principal said that in these 42 deaths only 7 died of encephalitis, while others were normal deaths. He said that the reason for the number of deaths was seasonal infection. Mr Singh also said that from August 26 to August 29, 11 deaths were reported from encephalitis, while 19 new patients suffering from same disease were admitted in hospital. UNI
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Lucknow, Aug 21:  Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Rajiv Kumar is likely to submit in a day, his much awaited inquiry report on children's death in BRD Medical college to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Last night, the Chief Secretary had a meeting with the CM where he discussed about the report, sources here today. "Mr Kumar was ready with his report but after the CM provided more inputs, it was not officially submitted," he said. The submission was delayed as the CM is on a Delhi and Saharanpur visit today and is likely to be done after he returns tomorrow afternoon. Though the content of the report is not made public but an official said that the Chief Secretary has suggested long term strategy regarding payment options for life saving drugs. “As more suggestions were given in that meeting which are likely to be incorporated in the report which will be submitted to government, the source said.” He said a PIL has been filed in this case so the government is not rushing as the High Court has asked the government to spell out the decisions taken. The UP government has been directed by the High court to file its report by August 26. The Chief Minister has ordered a probe into the catastrophe in which 33 children had died on August 10 and 11 when the BRD hospital went out of oxygen as the supplier refused to supply gas due to non clearance of its dues. Source said that Chief Secretary's report has taken into cognisance the report of District Administration as well as that of the expert committee comprising three top doctors of Delhi hospital. District Magistrate, Gorakhpur, Rajiv Rautela, who was asked to inquire into the crisis gave his report which said that “there was disruption in oxygen supply in hospital but there was no senior doctor present in the hospital to tackle that crisis”. A three-member team of doctors from New Delhi said that interruption of oxygen supply was not the reason for the deaths. Allegations of death due to interruption in oxygen supply was “technically incorrect', it said. “As the issue has taken a political colour, the CM wants all points should be covered before the committee submits its report,” the source said. UNI

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New Delhi, Aug 19 : Questioning the silence of the authorities on the Gorakhpur tragedy wherein 63 children died in a hospital in the district due to lack of Oxygen, industrialist and the son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Robert Vadra, today said the nation needed answers from the government on the tragedy. In a post on Facebook, Mr Vadra said,'I'm still wondering, what happened to the case n findings of the 63 children who had died in Gorakhpur. Was it just news for 2 days. We need answers... ' He said answers were needed on the actual cause of the incident, fixing accountability of the incident, the compensation for the affected families as well as on whether steps have been taken to ensure that such an incident does not occur again. 'What was the prognosis (actual cause of the incident). How do we make sure the incident does not occur again? How have the families been consoled n taken care of ? Why is the media not highlighting n following up this case ? Who is responsible n accountable ? Is it just going to be forgotten ?,' Mr Vadra asked in his post. Over 60 children have died in a Gorakhpur hospital since August 7 allegedly due to lack of Oxygen. Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is on a visit to Gorakhpur today to meet the families of the children. UNI

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Gorakhpur, Aug 19 :  Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi reached the district today to meet the families of the children died due to shortage of oxygen at the BRD Medical College Hospital here recently. Accompanied by Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and AICC general secretary (in-charge of Uttar Pradesh) Gulam Nabi Azad and state president Raj Babbar, Mr Gandhi first went to visit the family members of the deceased children in nearby areas. The Congress vice-president was also accompanied by former Union Minister R P Singh, state legislature party leader Ajay Kumar Lalu and MLA Aradhana Mishra. Mr Gandhi will go to the residence of four such families, whose children have died on August 10, reportedly due to shortage of oxygen supply in the hospital. However, the UP government had vehemently denied such shortage so far. He refused to speak to media on his arrival from New Delhi by a chartered flight and said he will speak after his visit to the hospital at around 1600 hrs. However, Mr Azad in a brief interaction with media, directly blamed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the mismanagement of the hospital. "In spite of being five-time MP from Gorakhpur, Yogi Adityanath did nothing for the hospital," he commented while reiterating that the UP government had conspired to cover up the criminal act of the death of the children due to oxygen supply failure. According to the programme, Mr Gandhi will first go to the residence of Brahmadeo Yadav of Baghagarha village, then to Malawa village to meet the family of Nitesh Shukla, then at Basauli village in Bansgaon to meet Ramashanker and then will go to Khutna village in the Khajni area to meet the families of Jitendra. Earlier, Mr Adityanath, who was in Gorakhpur in the morning to launch the cleanness drive, had alleged that Mr Gandhi and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav are coming to Gorakhpur just for picnic. UNI

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Gorakhpur, Aug 19 : Ahead of Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's visit to Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath slammed the Gandhi scion, saying that the city was not a picnic spot. Mr Adityanath today launched 'Swachh Uttar Pradesh, Swasth Uttar Pradesh' campaign and took broom in his hand to sweep the roads in the city's Andhiyari Bagh locality. Slamming the Congress leader, Mr Adityanath said," Delhi mein baitha koi yuvraj swachhta abhiyan ka mahatv nahi jaanega. Gorakhpur unke liye picnic spot bane uski ijazat nahi deni chahiye (A yuvraj sitting in Delhi cannot think about the importance of cleanliness. Gorakhpur has turned into a picnic spot for them and hence they should not be allowed to do so)." He also termed SP president Akhilesh Yadav as 'Lucknow ka Shahzada' without taking his name and also criticised him for taking the state into the era of backwardness. "These Yuvraj and Shahzada were in Gorakhpur just for a picnic and people should protest against such act," he added. In his brief address before launching the cleanliness drive in the state which will continue till August 25 after garlanding the statue of Dr B R Ambedkar, the CM lambasted the parties, which ruled the state for the past 12 to 15 years for turning the state into backwardness." Governments in last 12-15 yrs ruined institutions in UP for their selfish motives by institutionalising corruption and deprived people of facilities," he added. The CM also blamed the corruption in the administration behind the BRD medical college hospital oxygen shortage and indirectly held the previous Samajwadi Party government responsible for it. "The previous governments in UP did not do anything for cleanliness as they were only interested in minting money through corruption,"he alleged. "It is our target to see Gorakhpur clean and beautiful so that it can also be free of any disease," he added. Mr Adityanath said, "I started movement against Encephalitis in eastern UP. When it comes to its prevention, it is better than cure and it starts with sanitation," the CM further said. He reiterated that the BJP government has already made 1,627 villages on the banks of the river Ganga free from Open Defecation Free(ODF) while it will be done in 30 districts by December 30 next. "If we want to eradicate encephalitis, then we will have to go for cleanliness drive and safe drinking water," he said. The CM also announced that this season, 93 lakh children were administered vaccination of encephalitis in 38 districts of eastern UP. After the function, the CM left for the flood affected Maharganj, Sidharthnagar and other districts where he will assess the situation. UNI

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