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with the key generation were not properly verifying documents of the firms ap-
plying for the keys.
One of the accused, a Chartered Accountant from Pune, has been arrest-
ed from Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh while others are residents of Delhi-NCR,
said Roy. The gang operated across the country through export-import agents
and around 107 such incidents have been detected, Roy added. The accused used
fake documents and during video verification, impersonated themselves as
Company Directors to get the digital key, said an officer.
[Source : The Times of India, New Delhi, dated 28-7-2020]

List COVID work done by all Ministries : CIC to Health
Ministry

After a Right to Information applicant sought answers to 18 questions on
India’s response to COVID-19, the Central Information Commission (CIC) asked
the Health Ministry to “compile all the measures taken by various Ministries and
list them chronologically on its website.”
The recent order issued by Chief Information Commissioner Bimal Julka
stated that the RTI “application was shuttled from one division of the Public
Authority to another which indicates that there is a very urgent requirement for
collating the information”.
The applicant had approached all top bodies, including Ministries for
External Affairs, Home Affairs, Health, Indian Council of Medical Research, Na-
tional Centre for Disease Control and NITI Aayog, for answers. The applicant in
April had sought answers to questions which include the date on which the Cen-
tre first received information on the virus affecting China and details of meetings
it carried out with regard to a potential health crisis between November, 2019
and March, 2020.
He had specifically sought to know how the Centre had planned to con-
trol the pandemic between March 5 and 14, when deaths in China and Europe
had already crossed 4,000 and 6,000, respectively. He had sought the minutes of
the meetings held among top officials regarding this.
[Source : The Economic Times, New Delhi, dated 27-7-2020]

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