Kolkata: Bengal has received 18,554 covid death compensation claims, or 91% of the total deaths recorded at 20,231, and respects almost 80% of them, spending almost Rs 75 Crore from state disaster response funds, even a claim from Kolkata.
– Which has the highest part of Covid’s death – navigate around 40% sign.
Experts have the view that the shortcomings of the city can be attributed to parts of a rich city, who do not want to spend time and energy in the process of submitting claims.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court has raised several countries for “insensitivity” because they did not take proactive steps, and asked the authorities to reach the families of the victims without waiting for their claim.
Disaster Management Minister Javed Ahmed Khan said instructions had been given to remove all claimed claims.
“We have received RS 100 Crore funds from the state disaster management authority to pay compensation and, if needed, we will ask for more.
Until Tuesday, we released Rs 74.4 Crore as compensation.” Application of Kolkata, however, low.
Only around 2,200 applications have reached KMC (which is more than 1,500 been removed), even though the total death from the city, to date, is 5458.