Public health key to easing of curbs: CPM

Thiruvananthapuram: CPM state secretariat which met here on Friday reached a conclusion that public health should be the major criteria when it comes to decisions on relaxations in Covid-19-induced lockdown restrictions. The secretariat was of the opinion that lockdown restrictions did yield good results in terms of controlling Covid spread.
The secretariat decided to appoint CPM leader and former MP A Sampath as private secretary of K Radhakrishnan, devaswom and SC/ST development minister.
It considered the criticism by opposition parties against the government decision regarding minority scholarship as politically motivated. The decision to rework the scholarship distribution pattern in accordance with the census statistics was taken after considering the opinions expressed by political parties, including Muslim League at the all-party meeting. The new formula would not deny the due share of scholarship to any community, it opined. tnn