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- Senior judge of the Supreme Court, Madan Bhimarao Lokur, is now the Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority of India (NALSA).
- President Ramnath Kovind nominated Justice Lokur to the post.
- Justice Lokur will take the charge as NALSA's Executive Chairman on October 3.
- Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who is set to become the head of the apex court, is the outgoing chairman of the NALSA.
- The NALSA, the chairman of which is the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, ensures speedy disposal of cases.
- Its prime objectives also include reducing the burden of the judiciary and providing free legal services to marginalised and disadvantaged. The legal body also organises Lok Adalats for speedy resolution of cases.
- Justice Lokur served as the Additional Solicitor General of India from July 1998 to February 1999, when he became an Additional Judge of Delhi High Court on 19th February 1999.
- He was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court in June 2012.
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- Some vials of the oral polio vaccines contaminated with the type-2 polio virus were administered to children in Maharashtra and Telengana, besides Uttar Pradesh, health ministry officials confirmed.
- The vials were manufactured by a Ghaziabad-based pharmaceutical company.
- The ministry has issued advisories to the three states to ensure that polio surveillance teams trace the children who have been given the contaminated vaccines.
- The surveillance teams have also been asked to step up the monitoring of the children and keep a close watch for any symptoms. It needs to be seen how the virus behaves, a health ministry official said.
- The government had set up a committee to probe the contamination of some batches of the vaccine.
- The health ministry, under its national immunisation programme, will also ensure that inactivated polio virus (IPV) injections are administered to all children in the places concerned of the three states so that no child is missed, the official said.
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