Noida Apr 19 PTI Thirty-three children were among 107 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in Uttar Pradeshs Gautam Buddh Nagar district on Tuesday officials saidThe number of active cases in Gautam Buddh Nagar adjoining Delhi has reached 411 they saidAccording to the official figures 107 more people have tested positive since Monday 6 AM while 32 patients got cured during this periodOf the 107 new cases 33 are children who have tested positive for COVID-19 Chief Medical Officer Dr Sunil Kumar Sharma saidAmid a rise in COVID-19 cases District Magistrate Suhas L Yathiraj had on Sunday urged public to not panic but take precaution against the virus He had also appealed to the people to contact helpline number1800492211 for any COVID-19-related assistance Since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020 a total of 99154 people in Gautam Buddh Nagar have tested positive for COVID-19 while 490 of them have died due to the infection according to official data PTI KIS TDS TDS

Lucknow Mar 26 PTI A day after taking oath as Uttar Pradeshs chief minister for a second consecutive term Yogi Adityanath on Saturday vowed to further strengthen the good governance in the state by competing with his own governments performance during his first term In a high-level meeting at Yojna Bhawan here Chief Minister Adityanath asked officials to identify ten priority sectors and work aggressively in those sectors to make the states economy worth one trillion US dollars Adityanath set the goals while also prioritising the work of filling vacancies in various government departments and setting up a mechanism of weekly review of various departments work by the state chief secretary and a fortnightly review by himself To strengthen the good governance further our competition will start with ourselves and the establishment of good governance will have to be taken forward with more vigour an official statement quoted the chief minister as telling the states top officials in a high-level meeting on Saturday The meeting at Yojna Bhawan was attended by the chief secretary the Revenue Council chairman the Agriculture Production commissioner additional chief secretaries besides the principal secretaries and secretaries Asking officials to further improve the good governance in the state Adityanath said A new Uttar Pradesh of new India is taking shape on the ideas of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and this work should be expedited In the first term our challenge was to tackle malpractices in governance but in the last five years good governance has been established and in the next five years we will try to improve upon the work done in the previous term he added Referring to the BJPs Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra election manifesto before the assembly elections Adityanath asked all officials to work in a coordinated manner to fulfil all the poll promises in a time-bound manner within five years He asked officials of every department to fix targets for 100 days six months and a year Emphasising his old resolve of zero-tolerance against corruption the chief minister said it should be effectively continued and technology should be extensively incorporated to make the government schemes more accessible to the common man The chief minister also sought the implementation of e-office aimed at enforcing punctuality and expeditious work culture in government offices He also sought improvement in the functioning of the Panchayati Raj institutions and village secretariats by the deployment of Panchayat assistants there He said village chaupals should be organised regularly by village-level revenue officials and those of the Panchayati Raj institutions and Rural Development Department in coordination with village heads to address the problems of rural people In a bid to further enforce the official responsibility and accountability the chief minister asked officials to reply to the Union government letters within a week and interact with the public on regular basis He also asked them to keep his office posted on the peoples feedback on various work of the government PTI CDN RAX RAX

New Delhi Sep 27 PTI Getting aid is not a fundamental right the Supreme Court observed on Monday and said the government should take into account various factors such as financial constraints and deficiencies while deciding on aid for educational institutions Also when it comes to aided institutions there cannot be any difference between a minority and non-minority one the apex court said Right to get an aid is not a fundamental right the challenge to a decision made in implementing it shall only be on restricted grounds said a bench of Justices S K Kaul and M M Sundresh Therefore even in a case where a policy decision is made to withdraw the aid an institution cannot question it as a matter of right Maybe such a challenge would still be available to an institution when a grant is given to one institution as against the other institution which is similarly placed the bench said The top court said if an institution does not want to accept and comply with the conditions accompanying such aid it is well open to it to decline the grant and move on its own way On the contrary an institution can never be allowed to say that the grant of aid should be on its own terms the bench said The apex courts observations came while allowing Uttar Pradeshs appeal challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict holding that Regulation 101 framed under The Intermediate Education Act 1921 is unconstitutional The top court said that once it is held that right to get an aid is not a fundamental right the challenge to a decision made in implementing it shall only be on restricted grounds Therefore even in a case where a policy decision is made to withdraw the aid an institution cannot question it as a matter of right Maybe such a challenge would still be available to an institution when a grant is given to one institution as against the other institution which is similarly placed Therefore with the grant of an aid the conditions come If an institution does not want to accept and comply with the conditions accompanying such aid it is well open to it to decline the grant and move in its own way the bench said The bench said that a policy decision is presumed to be in public interest and such a decision once made is not amenable to challenge until and unless there is manifest or extreme arbitrariness a Constitutional court is expected to keep its hands off An executive power is residue of a legislative one therefore the exercise of said power ie the amendment of the impugned regulation cannot be challenged on the basis of mere presumption the bench said Once a rule is introduced by way of a policy decision a demonstration on the existence of manifest excessive and extreme arbitrariness is needed the apex court said PTI PKS SA