A PIL has been filed in the Apex Court seeking direction to convert the religious & charitable places that enjoy tax benefits, into Covid Care Centers as well as cease any further transactions with immediate effect & utilise their funds for Covid patients.
The petition also requested for a district-wise data collection of Covid-19 patients across the country containing the details of demand for oxygen, medicine, hospitalization etc.
It should be developed through a dashboard /web portal enabling the Covid-19 patients to register & search for their respective medical requirements, said the plea, adding that district-wise nodal officers should be appointed for this work.
The petition filed by Manu Gaur, President of Taxpayers Association of India, also urges to open the use of necessary drugs & medicines & to waive the GST on the same during the Covid period and/or to invite the other companies to come manufacture & distribute for saving lives of citizens of India.
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Demanding to convert religious places into Covid centres, the plea said their funds should be used in Covid-19 relief "as this money has been given by the public for social & religious work & in today's time there is no greater social work & religion than saving the lives of people from Coronavirus."
Along with this, it was also requested in the petition that all the Ayurvedic, Homoeopathic, Unani & Naturopathy hospitals of the country should also be converted to Covid-19 Care Centers.
The plea also emphasised that 100% vaccination of home delivery staff, public transport etc. should be done.
The plea said that "Also, the business institutions/industries, etc. who get all their workers fully vaccinated, should be given the freedom to run their Organisation. The vaccination certificate of those who have been fully vaccinated should be recognised as a pass in the Lockdown period. Similarly, there should be an incentive for vaccination & will also slow down the infection spread. A Covid-19 control room should be made in every district like a usual police control room, which can make necessary arrangements for the citizens".
The plea also called for making MPs & MLAs accountable with the local administration for the Covid-19 arrangements in their constituencies as salaries, allowances & pensions to them are paid from taxpayers' money so somehow they should be responsible.
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