LUCKNOW: Around 20% of the first round of applications submitted by the next of kin of those who died of Covid-19 cleared the first stage of the clearance process for the release of Rs 50,000 ex-gratia, on Monday.
The decision was taken at the first meeting of the district level Covid Death Ascertaining Committee (CDAC) chaired by district magistrate Abhishek Prakash.
About 581 applications, received by the district administration from October 26 till November 12, were put forth in the CDAC meeting.
Of these, 118 applications (20%) had all of their documents on point following which they passed the first step of the compensation process.
“Of the 581 applications received so far 118 applications were complete with all their documents and attachments. These belong to the next of kin of those whose death is also officially registered as Covid death on the government portal in the total 2,651 Covid deaths since March 2020. The 118 applications are authenticated from our end for receiving the ex-gratia sum, and we will wait for further government orders on how to move forward,” said CDAC member and additional district magistrate Bipin Kumar Mishra.
“We will regularly hold the verification process for a smaller number of applications to not have any backlog. We will reach out to those applicants whose documents are missing,” he added.
Other members of the CDAC who were present in the meeting included additional chief medical officer (ACMO) Dr Vivek Dubey, head of medicine department at King George’s Medical University (KGMU), Prof Virendra Attam, KGMU’s pathology department faculty Dr Sanjay Mishra, members of the Covid-19 Helpdesk and Application Cell from the district administration Amar Singh, Dhirendra Bahadur Srivastav and Kuldeep Jaiswal.
