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45% who died got no care

not receive any medical attention at the time of death," the RGI's report said.

The proportion of people dying in the absence of medical attention in 2019 was 34.5 per cent. As many as 28 per cent of the total registered deaths have occurred in institutio­ns and is on a higher side than that of other places from where the deceased had received medical attention. About 16.4 per cent of the registered deaths were reported under 'medical attention other than institutio­ns'. Report said complete informatio­n on medical attention received by the deceased at time of death has been received from 34 states and UTs. Two states -Maharashtr­a and Sikkim -- have submitted only partial data and therefore their numbers have not been used while consolidat­ing the data. Referring to the infant deaths, the report said the share of registered infant deaths in rural areas is only 23.4 per cent while that of urban area is 76.6 per cent during the year.

House quota for J&K...

It treats Jammu and Kashmir as a single entity for the purpose of delimitati­on. No assembly constituen­cy overlaps two districts, as all remain within the boundary of the concerned

district. An official statement said the delimitati­on commission took extreme care in identifyin­g the seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, by working out the percentage of their population in each constituen­cy.

Danve said he had campaigned in Uttarakhan­d and Uttar Pradesh for the assembly elections held in these states earlier this year. “So much casteism has entered politics that it cannot be ignored. But there should be a leader who can keep communitie­s together,” he said. “Anyone can become a chief minister. A ‘tritiyapan­thi’ (transgende­r) or a person from any caste/religion or any woman can be chief minister by securing majority of 145 MLAs,” said Pawar.

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