New Delhi: After seeing “the worst” in their lives during the second covid wave, the grave manager in Delhi prayed there no third round but said they were also looking for alternatives if there was one.
The second wave of Covid-19 was claimed to be a lives in the national capital, triggered an unprecedented invasion in graves and crematoriums.
“We see the worst in our lives in the past two months and attend up to 25-28 bodies a day on several occasions.
I prayed to God to stop the third wave,” said Qayamuddin, a member of the Managing Committee from the Islamic grave agle at the gate of Delhi.
The extensive facility looked at the outlook out of space for the funeral during the second wave itself, Mashqoor said.
Rashid, another member of the Managing Committee.
Rashid claims that more than 1,500 bodies, most of the victims of Covid-19, were buried there in the past two months.
“What we can do but pray that there is no third wave.
We can accommodate 250-300 corpses in the room that we now make,” said Rashid.
According to the Delhi Minority Commission report, there were 131 graves in the city.
However, the burial of people who were dying because Covid-19 was permitted only four of them at the Delhi gate, Taman Shastri, Tahirpur and Mongolpuri.
Chairman of the Council of Waqf Delhi and Okhla Mla Amanatullah Khan said that a plot had been identified near the Millennium Park in Southeast Delhi to be used for burial, if needed.
Qayamuddin said the four-hectare plot near the Millennium Park was not used for previous burial because of the opposition from the local population.
“This land was given to us for burial in 1964.
It will be used if the pressure on another grave in the third wave case,” he said.
Abdul Sattar, a social worker at Shastri Park, said the cemetery in the city was quickly running out of space because of the number of spiny covid deaths during the second wave.
Grave in Shastri Park which mainly serves transvestites.
The Muna Delhi area almost did not have space now after the rush witnessed during the second wave, said Sattar.
He said he had written to various authorities, including the Prime Minister, the Government of Delhi, the body of the Civic and Delhi Development Authority, to increase the size of the grave, but no one has been done so far.