New Delhi: After summoning the Secretary of Head of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh with a three-hour notice to appear virtually slowly from Covid compensation, the Supreme Court on Wednesday attracted several countries because they did not take proactive steps and asked the authorities to reach the families of the victims without Waiting for them to submit a claim.
The court directed that even a family must be compensated to lose their loved ones to the covid pandemic and that the claim application should not be rejected on the technical basis.
Judge M and Shah and Sanjiv Khanna attracted various state governments, including Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, because they did not distribute compensation even for cases officially received by the state as Covid’s death a few months ago.
The bench directs all states and UTS to immediately disburse the number in all cases received as Covid’s death without waiting for the claim.
The court said the state had all information, such as names and addresses, of those who were officially declared a Covid death and directed that the authorities had to reach these families to disburse the amount without delay.
Testing the efforts carried out by Maharashtra, Gujarat and Telangana – Countries where the number of applications of claims submitted are several official Covid tolls – Bench says a large number of people come and submit a claim application because the awareness of the government scheme concerned provides a broad publicity for it .
“How the number of applications of claims can be less than the official mortality rate.
It is due to lack of information among people and countries must take steps to disseminate information …
The state government does not take steps and we must take authority assistance State and district legal services to reach these families, “the court said, added that countries did not show sensitivity in dealing with this problem to extend assistance to the family, many of them were in trouble.
As reported by TOI on Tuesday, the number of Covid compensation claims received by several fares far exceeded their official deaths.
In accordance with data collected by the Center, the number of applications of claims is less than the number of Covid deaths that are officially declared in several countries, including Assam, Haryana, Karnataka, Punjabthan.
SC: Reach Kin for Covid Ex Gratia, Don’t Wait for Claims
