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on the Ganga Basin to adopt at least tal. According to the new treatment ing System under which highly pollut-
five villages under the 'Unnat Bharat proposal, type-2 diabetes in Asian In- ing industries will be monitored 24x7.
Abhiyaan' to implement the projects dian differs significantly from that
for solid/liquid waste management found in white Caucasians. The earlier method of physical sam-
and open defecation free status. pling and lab testing was found to be
Rajys Sabha passes Na- inadequate as it could not capture
New treatment guidelines tional Waterways Bill pollution levels all 24 hours. With
for diabetes patients online monitoring, the situation has
The Rajya Sabha passed the National completely changed and monitoring
India may soon come up with a new Waterways Bill, 2015. Road Transport, can be done continuously. The indus-
set of treatment guidelines for pa- Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin tries now are taking steps to install
tients of diabetes. This means medi- Gadkari had said the Bill was aimed at new equipment to meet environmen-
cines would be prescribed depending unleashing the navigation potential of tal norms. "We shall also bring about
on the stage of the disease and kind of India's larger river ways resources. The necessary changes in law to enable use
patient. Lok Sabha had passed the Bill earlier. of online data as legal evidence," Min-
ister of Environment Prakash Javadekar
Leading endocrinologists and diabetes As part of this Bill, under entry 24 of said.
experts from across the country have the Union List of the Seventh Schedule
proposed a new treatment guideline or of the Constitution, the Union govern- The Minister said 2,280 highly pollut-
algorithm for type-2 diabetes specific ment can make laws on shipping and ing industries, which constitute about
to Indian patients. Currently, doctors navigation on inland waterways that 80 per cent of the functioning indus-
use the guidelines as prescribed by the are classified as national waterways. tries under this category, will install
American Diabetes Association. The Bill identifies an additional 101 the devices. "If any parameters ex-
waterways as national waterways. ceed the prescribed limit for more than
"Treatment guidelines or algorithms The Bill also specifies the extent of 15 minutes, SMS alerts would be sent
developed and validated in developed development to be undertaken on to officials of the local law enforce-
nations may not be relevant or appli- each waterway. ment agencies, as well as central agen-
cable to patients in India. In India, cies," Javadekar said.
there are several factors such as early Online Effluent, Emission
age of onset of diabetes, occurrence of Monitoring System to The Ministry said 321 industries have
diabetes in non-obese and sometimes monitor polluting indus- been closed following their failure to
lean people, differences in the relative tries 24x7 install monitoring devices and they will
contributions of insulin resistance and be allowed to reopen only after they
frequent infections including tubercu- The Ministry of Environment, Forests adhere to the norms. Closure orders
losis which impact treatment," says Dr and Climate Change announced an have also been issued to 141 industries,
Anoop Misra, chairman, diabetes and Online Effluent and Emission Monitor- and another 403 are likely to receive
allied specialities in Fortis CDOC hospi- closure orders soon.

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