The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Rajasthan government to pay compensation to children orphaned by COVID-19 within two weeks. A bench of Justices MR Shah and Sudhanshu Dhulia also ordered the state government to submit details to the State Legal Services Authority regarding the rejected applications for payment of ex-gratia within two weeks. It asked the Rajasthan State Legal Services Authority to look into these applications and thereafter take an appropriate decision within four weeks.
“As regards the pending applications for compensation to orphans, we direct the State to make payment to the remaining applicants whose parents have died within two weeks,” the bench said.
The Rajasthan government informed the apex court that the ex-gratia amount has been paid to 191 children orphaned due to Kovid, out of a total of 718 children.
On the issue of suicide deaths, the counsel for the state government also told the bench that 9,077 applications were received at the district level, out of which 551 are pending, 8047 are approved and 479 have been rejected.
The top court had earlier slammed the Rajasthan government in its “unsatisfactory” affidavit for taking steps on payment of ex-gratia amount to the family members of those who died of COVID-19 and said it would not make any donations. has been
The top court was hearing a plea filed by advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal, alleging that Rajasthan was not complying with the 2021 order requiring states to pay ex-gratia of Rs 50,000 to the families of those who died of the pandemic. instructed to do.
Bansal also sought directions to the State Legal Services Authorities to seek status reports regarding the implementation of his orders. The apex court had earlier expressed concern over bogus claims being made to get Rs 50,000 ex-gratia for the families of those who died due to Covid, saying it never imagined that the relief could be “misused”. Is.
It had said on October 4 last year that no state would deny ex-gratia of Rs 50,000 to the next of kin of those who died after being infected with Covid on the ground that the death certificate did not mention the virus as the cause. . death.
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