Gujarat govt makes additional provision for compensation over Covid deaths

Gandhinagar: The state government has made an additional provision of Rs 585 crore for provisioning compensation to the heirs of persons who died during covid-19, according to guidelines issued by the supreme court.

The government has made a provision of paying Rs 50,000 to the next kin of 1.17 lakh persons. The state government had made an additional demand of Rs 2436 crore for the purchase of medicines administered to covid patients and for the payments made to medical and paramedical staff serving in covid-19 hospitals. The state government had informed the supreme court that it had received 1,02,230 covid-19 death compensation claims for Rs 50,000 ex-gratia. The state government had sanctioned the payment in 87045 cases out of the claims received. It had rejected 8994 applications and over 6 thousand applications were under scrutiny.

The state government informed the supreme court that there were 5867 children who have become orphans in the pandemic and compensation was paid in 3287 cases. DeshGujarat