MARGAO: Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginald Lourenco on Tuesday urged the government to instruct the district collectors and other officials to disburse COVID-19 compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the people who belong to the economically weaker section category as announced on the Revolutionary Day.
In the letter to Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant, he claimed that district collectors and other officials are clueless about the government’s COVID compensation.
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“I am receiving messages from the people belonging to economically weaker section category who have lost their earning member of COVID-19 that they are yet to receive Rs 2 lakh compensation which had been announced for the aforesaid category while commemorating the Statehood Day on May 30”, he stated.
Reginaldo said that these aggrieved people are made to run from the pillar to post but all their efforts are going in vain because it is given to understand that the State government has not instructed the district collectors and other officials on the reimbursement of the said compensation.
“Similarly our State government must also have ready data of children/students orphaned who lost either one or both of the parents due to COVID-19. An all-out effort must be made by our State government to financially assist these children in their full growth and their complete education till they attain 25 years of age. The government be the caretaker for all who have lost their loved ones especially parents and earning member due to the onslaught of the said deadly pandemic in the State which till yesterday accounted around 3040 deaths”, he added.
