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  • BPL households of Covid victims to get Rs 5k additional month-to-month in Kerala

    Express News Service

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In what may very well be a significant aid to a whole bunch of poor households who had misplaced the only real incomes member to Covid, the state cabinet on Wednesday determined to offer Rs 5,000 monthly for 3 years to every such household as a part of a particular monetary help scheme. This will likely be along with Rs 50,000 one-time solatium given to family members of all Covid victims as per the Supreme Court directive.

    The scheme to offer monetary help to all BPL households which have misplaced the only real incomes member can even embody deaths occurred exterior the state, together with in international international locations.  That means, expatriates from poor households who had misplaced their lives owing to Covid can even be coated by the scheme, supplied their households are in Kerala and within the BPL class. 

    The cash will likely be distributed as direct cash switch to the account of the primary dependant for 3 years.According to the Central authorities information, 3,570 Indians died overseas resulting from Covid up to now and over 3,000 of them had been within the Middle East international locations. A follow-up on expatriate deaths by NORKA Roots discovered that over 1,000 Keralites had died due to Covid in abroad international locations until July, a interval when the fatality was excessive. As on Wednesday, 26,573 Covid deaths have been reported within the state and an addition 7,000 deaths that had been omitted will likely be added to the checklist within the coming days. 

    Covid aid launch inside 30 days of software receipt

    A 28The cabinet additionally determined to repair the criterion in such a manner that monetary standing of the household, exempting the deceased member, will likely be taken under consideration by the income authorities to determine whether or not the household is beneath the poverty line or not. That means, if the one incomes member dies and others within the household are jobless or minors, the household will likely be labeled as BPL if there are not any different sources of earnings.

    Families availing social welfare or welfare fund board pensions won’t be disqualified from getting the aid. Village officers have been directed to make sure that there isn’t a authorities worker or earnings tax payer within the beneficiary household when verifying the appliance. The choice is more likely to trigger enormous monetary implications for the federal government although it has not made an evaluation but.

    The software course of will likely be launched quickly and the beneficiaries shall give an software in a single web page to avail the aid. The authorities will entrust district collectors and different income officers to arrange mechanisms to obtain the purposes. The fund will likely be launched inside 30 days of receiving the appliance. It has been directed to not inconvenience the candidates by calling them to the workplace of the official involved.

    The cash will likely be launched from the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund until the federal government makes separate finances allocation for a similar. The choice to award extra aid got here at a time when there was demand from varied quarters to think about the socio financial background of households in awarding the extra aid. In the meeting, the opposition UDF had requested the federal government to utilise the cash collected for vaccine problem for the distribution of the aid.

  • Odisha sanctions Rs 2.55 crore ex-gratia to members of the family of 17 journalists who died of COVID-19

    By PTI
    BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha authorities has sanctioned an ex-gratia of Rs 2.55 crore to the members of the family of 17 working journalists of the state who died because of COVID-19, an official launch mentioned.

    Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik accredited a proposal on this regard put-forth by the Information and Public Relations (I&PR) Department on Friday.

    An help of Rs15 lakh every has been sanctioned for the households of 17 working journalists of the state, who died as a result of an infection.

    The listing of journalists who’ve been sanctioned ex-gratia include-four from Bhubaneswar.

    They are: Manas Jaypuria from Zee Odisha, Basanta Das (Freelance), Bijayan Laxmi Mohanty (Ajikali), Pritiman Mohapatra (Times of India).

    Three journalists from Bolangir – Subhransu Sekhara Mishra (Sambad), Jateesh Chandra Khamari (Sambad) and Kailash Chandra Sahoo (Pragatibadi) are additionally within the listing.

    Similarly, Gobind Behera (TV News 6 Web), Pradeep Kishore Sahu (Sambad), Kishore Chandra Dash (Samaj), Naresh Kumar Behera (Odisha Files), Ratnakar Moharana (Kalinga Jyoti), Nandini, Nilaya Ranjan Pattnaik, (Block Correspondent), Karunakar Sahoo (Anupam Bharat) have been from Ganjam districts, whose members of the family will get the advantages.

    Moreover, the subsequent of kin of Bhanuprakash Rath (Naxatra TV) from Kalahandi and Ashok Kumar Sahoo (Manthan) and Pravat Kumar Routray (Loka Sampark) from Jajpur district would get the help.

    This monetary help will likely be disbursed to the subsequent of kin of the deceased journalists from the Journalist Welfare Fund.

    Few such instances have been acquired by the Information and Public Relations Department which will likely be disbursed after due verification, sources mentioned.

    After required enquiry on the district stage, eligible functions will likely be thought-about for disbursement of the ex-gratia compassionate help, an official mentioned.

  • S African Hindu monks accused of ‘overcharging’ for funerals of COVID victims

    Image Source : AP S African Hindu monks accused of ‘overcharging’ for funerals of COVID victims
    Some Hindu monks in South Africa have come beneath fireplace for allegedly charging excessive charges to conduct funerals of COVID-19 victims. Pradeep Ramlall, Manager of the Clare Estate Crematorium in Durban, slammed monks who’re doing this.
    Ramlall, who can also be a member of the Hindu Dharma Association of South Africa, mentioned the organisation had acquired a lot of complaints about this from households of people that had succumbed to the virus.
    In latest weeks, amid a second wave and a brand new variant of the COVID-19 virus, the crematorium has needed to introduce double shifts amid every day deaths within the metropolis which is residence to greater than a 3rd of South Africa’s Indian-origin inhabitants of about 1.4 million.
    “Priests are charging between R1,200 and R2,000 to conduct a funeral. This is not right. As per our scriptures, this is our seva (service) to the community. If a family wants to give a priest a donation, then that is acceptable but priests should not be charging people,” Ramlall instructed the Weekly Post.
    “I was in my vehicle. The priest had conducted a COVID-19 victim’s funeral. While he was in the parking lot, he removed R100 notes from his pocket and counted it before sanitising each note and putting the money back into his pocket,” he mentioned recounting an incident that he had personally witnessed.
    Ramlall known as on the neighborhood to keep away from being exploited beneath the present attempting circumstances which was bringing grief to so many households and requested them to conduct the cremation themselves.
    “We have pre-recorded videos that they can use. If they insist on having a priest, then the priest can conduct the funeral through Zoom or through a WhatsApp video call. We need to embrace technology,” Ramlall mentioned.

    South African Hindu Maha Sabha President Ashwin Trikamjee mentioned they’d a listing of accredited monks on the Sabha’s Facebook web page that households might contact to conduct the final rites at no cost.
    Citing the huge improve within the variety of COVID-19-related deaths, Trikamjee mentioned there have been funerals being performed at odd hours by monks who use their very own transport and private protecting tools (PPE) which they may anticipate reimbursement for, though households wouldn’t be obliged to pay.
    Earlier, Lucy Sigaban, a Hindu priestess within the sprawling Indian suburb of Lenasia close to Johannesburg, had urged the federal government to help monks who’re conducting funerals of COVID-19 victims freed from cost by offering them with PPE for gratis, however this has not occurred but.
    For the final two months, COVID-19 infections and deaths have been rising exponentially in South Africa.
    On Thursday alone, there have been 647 deaths and over 11,000 extra infections reported, bringing the whole deaths to 39,501 and infections to 1.38 million because the first case was reported in March final yr.
    The authorities is awaiting a cargo of over 15 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from India inside the subsequent month to prioritise well being care staff and different important providers employees. 
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