Governments in India and the United States moved on separate administrative fronts. Kerala set up a monitoring committee to oversee digging of newly-tarred roads in Thiruvananthapuram for water supply works, months after the state human rights commission issued directives to the Water Resources department and the Kerala Water Authority. Andhra Pradesh constituted a high-power committee to boost tiger conservation, following the recent suspicious death of a tigress in the Nallamala forest, according to an official release. In the U.S., the federal government said infectious disease monitoring could be improved, while the nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advanced to a full Senate vote. The report also said Medicaid work requirements will not be delayed.