The doctors of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of MedicalSciences have welcomed the amendments to the Organs TransplantationAct but they want some more changes to promote cadaver organ donation(organ donation from mentally dead people) instead of live organdonation.SGPGIMS is one of the leading centre of organ transplant in thecountry. The institute has performed more than 1900 transplants andperforms around 125 transplants annually.director SGPGIMS Dr R K Sharma who hastransplanted number of kidneys says, “ The government has done goodjob in allowing the organ donation from grand parents. It will help inorgan donation with in the family. Besides that swapping of organsbetween two families is allowed now that will solve the problem oforgan donation up to certain extent.”But the problem will remain the same until the cadaver organ donationis not promoted.Head of department urology Dr Rakesh Kapoor want the law to be moreliberal. He said, “ The patients are now allowed to swap operationsbetween the related donor and recipients who do not match themselvesbut match with other similar donors but besides that there must be aneffort to promote organ donation for the people. Government must comeout with some concessions for those who announce donation of theirorgans.”However he was happy with the provision of harsh punishments under theact and cognizable for the illegal transplantation activities to deterthe offenders from committing this crime.Another SGPGIMS expert Dr Gaur Choudhury says, “The law is supposed toprevent commercial dealings and to regulate the removal, storage andtransplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposes.”He said, “In european countries 99 percent transplants are fromcadaver donation, that’s why they don’t have any problem ofcommercialisation of organ donation. But here 99 percent donation islive donaton, which is the root cause of paucity of organs with thesurgeons.”“If the government makes some laws about cadaver donations then we canhope some solutions about the problem,” said Choudhury.

The efforts of Lucknow Municipal corporation to get Durga idols immersed inside the pits filled with water near river Gomti have not yielded results this year. But next year LMC bosses plan to involve all the Puja samiti’s for talks for eco friendly immersion of idols.
This year LMC had dug up pits at Jhule Lal Vatika, Mankameshwar van, Khatu Shyam Vatika behind Hanuman Setu Temple for immersion of DurgaIdols after Durga Puja.
“ This was done to control growing pollution in river Gomti as paints, varnish, thinner, are used in idols these things contain harmful components like Chromium and Cadmium which pollute the river in a bigway,” said additional municipal commissioner AC Sinha.
“ We called in a few Puja Samiti’s they agreed to cooperate with usbut due to old traditions and social pressures they must havepreferred to immerse the idols in the river,” said Sinha.
This time perhaps the efforts were too late said mayor Dinesh Sharma.He added, “ We must not loose heart as changes can’t be forced overnight, we must praise the efforts of LMC that it dug up pits foreco friendly immersion of idols. Atleast LMC officials dared to thinkprogressively, next time surely some idols would be immersed in these pits.”
“ Next year the effort would be to involve Puja Samiti’s into an awareness campaign earlier so that opinion of some religious bigwigs could be obtained. We can ask some big religious leaders who think alike on environmental issues to inspire the puja samitis to immerse the idols in the pits instead of river. But one thing is for sure that we will never force anyone for the task, as it’s the matter of faith, and tradition,” said Mayor.On the other side number of goddess Durga were immersed in riverGomti at the end of the Durga Puja festival on Monday. However, most of the Durga puja committees pleaded ignorance about anyeffort of LMC to immerse Durga Idols in pits filled with water. SudipSanyal, general secretary of La Touche Road Puja committee: “There wasno information at all. Neither LMC officials nor any other agency have contacted us.”BP Shah, a senior member of Aashiana Durga Puja committee said thatLMC might have called others not us. They never briefed us. Next time if we are called we will surely discuss the issues regarding immersion.”