Court docket Asks Maharashtra About Compensation For Households Of Frontline Employees Who Died Of COVID

Mumbai:

The Bombay Excessive Court docket on Friday requested the Maharashtra authorities to state its place on a petition in search of compensation for households of frontline staff who died after contracting COVID-19 an infection on responsibility.

A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Anuja Prabhudessai was listening to a petition filed by social employee Ketan Tirodkar.

The petitioner had sought route to the state authorities to declare frontline staff, together with docs, police personnel and others, who died after contracting the lethal an infection on responsibility, as martyrs and to offer their households compensation.

In its response to the petition final week, the state authorities had mentioned insurance coverage cowl is being supplied to all healthcare staff in non-public and government-run hospitals underneath the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package deal – Insurance coverage Scheme for Well being Staff.

The bench on Friday, nevertheless, famous that the state authorities’s affidavit was each “cryptic and informal”.

“We wish to know what the state authorities’s stand is on the plea. Is there any legislation or coverage in place?” Chief Justice Datta requested.

The court docket posted the petition for additional listening to after two weeks and directed the state authorities to make clear its stand.

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