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Disposal pouch for Chhattisgarh and Hamirpur in at some isolated places (heavy rainfall
condoms Himachal Pradesh also received the over Mumbai, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand
awards. and Kashmir) are highly localized and
Manufacturers of condoms and sani- are part of the natural variability of
tary products like diapers, sanitary Jute carrybags at Mother the Indian monsoon system. Although
pads and tampons will have to provide Dairy outlets and milk some recent studies hint at an increas-
a disposal pouch or wrapper along with booths ing frequency and intensity of extremes
the packets, the environment ministry in rainfall during the past 40-50 years,
has said. Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Pvt their attribution to global warming is
Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the yet to be established," said Javadekar.
Single emergency number National Dairy Development Board,
112 for all will soon offer environment-friendly Drug to treat tuberculosis
jute carrybags at its milk booths and by govt and J&J
A single emergency number 112 will be Safal outlets across Delhi and National
active throughout India from January Capital region. The carrybags will be The government has launched
1 to help people reach immediate ser- sourced from Bird Jute & Exports Ltd, bedaquiline, billed as a wonder drug to
vices of police, ambulance, and fire a public sector undertaking under the treat multi-drug-resistant (MDR) tu-
department. The service will also be Ministry of Textile, priced at Rs. 25 in berculosis, in collaboration with
accessible from numbers that has been milk shops and Rs. 34 for vegetables Johnson & Johnson.
stopped or temporarily suspended. and groceries, a company release said.
Johnson & Johnson has donated suffi-
PM awards for excellence Extreme rainfall rising, not cient quantities of the drug to treat
in Swachh Bharat related to climate change: 600 patients at six public health facili-
Javadekar ties-namely National Institute of Re-
Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag and search in Tuberculosis (NIRT), Chennai;
West Bengal's North 24 Parganas dis- Environment minister Prakash National Institute of TB and Respira-
tricts, besides Chandigarh, were pre- Javadekar has admitted that there is tory Diseases (NITRD), New Delhi;
sented awards by Prime Minister a rise in the frequency and intensity of Rajan Babu Institute for Pulmonary
Narendra Modi for excellence in imple- extreme rainfall events in the last 40- Medicine and Tuberculosis, New Delhi;
menting the NDA government's prior- 50 years in India, but doesn't think the Sewri Hospital, Mumbai; B.J. Medical
ity initiatives like Swachh Bharat Mis- phenomenon is linked with climate College & Hospital, Ahmedabad and
sion. Nagaon in Assam, Bikaner in change. Government Medical College,
Rajasthan, West Sikkim district, Guwahati.
Ananthapuramu in Andhra Pradesh, "Extreme rainfall events that occurred
Dadra and Nagar Havell, Balrampur in The newly launched medicine will
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