Plan to give minister more power over CLF rejected

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In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors are re­ject­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to give pow­er to a Min­is­ter of Health to re­view, an­nul and over­turn de­ci­sions of the Board of Man­age­ment of the Chil­dren’s Life Fund Au­thor­i­ty.

While sup­port of the con­cept of the ex­pan­sion of the Chil­dren’s Life Fund was un­di­vid­ed by sen­a­tors on both sides of the bench as well as in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors yes­ter­day, In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tor De­oroop Teemal be­lieves the Gov­ern­ment can help chil­dren in oth­er ways that does not in­volve po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence.