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Gehlot Govt threatened Dainik Bhaskar to cease its investigation, however Bhaskar has unearthed a 100 Cr rip-off

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Rajasthan authorities had threatened the liberty of expression of nationwide every day Dainik Bhaskar for exposing the wastage of giant portions of life-saving vaccines throughout the Congress-ruled Gehlot state of Rajasthan. Despite being allegedly warned by the Rajasthan authorities, Bhaskar has investigated and made one other large disclosure and has dropped at gentle a 100 crore rip-off within the state.The nationwide every day reported that as many as 20,000 unusable oxygen concentrators have been bought after stabilisation of the second wave of Covid-19 from non-public distributors at an inflated worth of Rs 1 Lakh whereas the precise worth of it got here right down to Rs 35000-40000. However, the alleged scams proceed being run in Rajasthan and the bloated costs of oxygen concentrators have as soon as once more put the Gehlot authorities in query.First Punjab, now Rajasthan#Pandemic profiteering is in vogue in @INCIndia dominated SatesBloated costs of O2 concentrators bought by Rajasthan Govt reeks of corruption@RahulGandhi Ji, drop white paper shenanigans & deal with these darkish, murky dealingshttps://t.co/GfNCnXYQC5 pic.twitter.com/4WopPKd6e1— Dr Harsh Vardhan (@drharshvardhan) July 2, 2021Extensively reported by TFI, Dainik Bhaskar ran a sequence of investigative reviews exposing how doses of Covid vaccines have been being wasted in Rajasthan by dumping them in rubbish bins and burying them underground. It had reported that not lower than 500 vials containing a minimal of two,500 doses had been procured from the dustbins of vaccinations centres and rubbish bins in a number of public hospitals throughout many districts in Rajasthan and scores of doses have been discovered buried deep underground. The state had reportedly, additionally wasted over 11.5 lakh doses of Covid vaccines amounting to over 7% of the overall wastage.Rajasthan Health Minister Raghu Sharma quickly despatched out an intimidating risk to the publication, stating that acceptable motion could be taken in opposition to journalists investigating with out disclosing their true identities and writing deceptive articles. Mounting an assault on the journalists concerned in overlaying the story, Raghu Sharma mentioned, “The reporters associated with this (Dainik Bhaskar) report wrongfully impersonated senior officials of the Rajasthan Health Department and representatives from WHO, thereby forcing and pressuring concerned authorities to provide them with the vials. These vials were not found from any dustbin.”इस खबर के लिए संबंधित पत्रकारों ने स्वयं को गलत तरीके से स्वास्थ्य विभाग, राजस्थान का उच्चाधिकारी एवं WHO का प्रतिनिधि बताया एवं संबंधित कर्मचारियों पर दबाव डालकर उनसे इन वाइल्स को प्राप्त किया। यह वाइल्स किसी डस्टबिन में नहीं मिली हैं। (2/5)— Dr. Raghu Sharma (@RaghusharmaINC) May 31, 2021Strangely, the Editors Guild Of India and the opposite star “journalists” who hate PM Modi, Yogi Adityanath and Amit Shah, calling them dictators, fascists, and authoritarians stored mum on the open intimidation and try at muzzling of press freedom by Congress authorities in Rajasthan.This is just not the primary time that the Rajasthan authorities has been uncovered for its alleged lies and failure to place up a robust entrance in opposition to the second wave of the pandemic. Recently, an appalling growth had come to gentle from the state the place life-support ventilators belonging to the PM Cares Fund pool have been being leased out by authorities hospitals to personal institutes at exorbitant charges.