Another four weeks time to states, granted by apex court, which have not yet filed affidavits  on a plea seeking directions to provide masks and sanitisers to the elderly amid the covid19 pandemic, to file their responses. on August 4 supreme court directed that all eligible old age persons should be regularly paid pension and states should provide them necessary medicines, masks, sanitisers and other essential goods in wake of the pandemic. The apex court had pronounced the verdict on the pleas by Kumar and one Sanjeeb Panigrahi.