Thread: Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister OPS, who also handles the finance portfolio, starts presenting the interim state budget for 2021-22 at Kalaivanar Arangam, Chennai.
-TN govt has incurred a total expenditure of Rs13,352.85 crores for handling Covid19 pandemic.
-Out of the 413 recommendations given by economic expert committee, govt has implemented 273 of them.
- TN is expected to register a positive growth of 2.02% at 2011-12 constant prices in 2020-2021. This is against an all India negative growth of 7.7 percent.
A complaint has been lodged against Dr. Subbiah Shanmugam, ABVP national president and a senior surgical oncologist at KMC hospital in Chennai, for allegedly harassing a woman living in his same apartment complex over a parking slot dispute. (1/6)
According to the complaint lodged by a relative of the 62-year-old single woman, Dr Subbiah has been harassing the woman and allegedly threw garbage and used masks, urinated (captured on CCTV) at her door step.
When we spoke to Dr Subbiah, he refuted the allegations. He said that the video is doctored and it is not him who is seen in the CCTV footage.
Thread: The report submitted by the Judicial Magistrate to MHC regarding the Tuticorin custodial case is damning.
- CCTV footage at Sathankulam PS got erased as the settings automatically deletes the footage after 24 hours. This despite the system having 1TB storage space.
- A woman constable at the PS has turned witness. Other cops tried to hinder the process of recording her statement.
- She said that Jayaraj & Bennix were beaten up all night with lathis.
- She also said there were blood stains on lathis & on the table.
Woman constable agreed to sign the statement after JM assured her proper security.
When the JM asked the cops to produce lathis, they pretended as if they did not hear what he said. They tried to subvert. One cop escaped the station and ran away by jumping the wall.
At a time when Chennai is recording a high surge in number of Covid-19 cases, instead of being sensitive, private hospitals are fleecing patients.
We got several complaints from patients about this and that's why we decided to do a status check. Here's what we found:
We visited 3 prominent pvt hospitals in Chennai to understand how patients are exploited.
Hospital 1:
Advance amount- Rs 50,000
PPE kits per day- Rs 10,000
Deluxe room including other charges- Rs 70K- 80K per day
Ventilator- Up to Rs 1.25 lakh per day
This hospital gives Covid19 treatment packages. There is a Rs 3 lakh package and other packages depending on the room. And if the patient needs ICU, advance of Rs 1 lakh need to be paid immediately. They were out of ICU beds when we visited.