Jaipur: The state government has released the amount of Ex Gratia equal to Rs 50,000 for each KIN of 80% of Covid victims until January 18.
The state has received 10,315 applications that are looking for compensation under the Covid Death Scheme.
Of these, Ex Gratia has been released to 8,633 applicants, while the remaining applications are in the process.
The number of deaths reported in the country is 9,019 in accordance with the medical health bulletin on January 18.
The highest number of claims has been approved in Jaipur Regency.
Rajasthan is among several countries, who have received applications for compensation that are almost equivalent to the number of deaths recorded by the Ministry of Health.
For example, the number of deaths reported in Maharashtra is 1.41,000, while the amount of compensation received by them is more than 2.00,000.
In Gujarat, the number of deaths recorded at 10,000, while the number of applications that are looking for compensation is Rs 89,000.
The process for compensation adopted by the state government is very scientific, claiming officials, further states that he did not leave space for ambiguity.
“Applicants must submit a certified copy of all relevant documents, including Covid reports, death certificates, hospital records and aadhaar numbers / cards while submitting compensation,” said Om Prakash Bunkar, Director, Department of Justice and Empowerment, Rajasthan.
Each application is actually checked by officials before compensation is complete.
Officials informed that before they received documents manually at the district head office.
Now, they come up with an online system search application.
“So far, they have received 14,000 online applications, which experience verification by officials.
Immediately, the remaining applications will be discarded,” Bunker said.
The model adopted by the state said that they did not accept applications that did not have all the documents needed.
Applications, which are not entertained are those, who do not attach death certificates, Covid reports and those who die outside the country.