Mumbai: Amidst the ongoing Corona Virus crisis in Maharashtra, the State Government has now received lakhs of claim applications. According to a report, till Tuesday morning, the Maharashtra government has received 2.2 lakh applications from the family members of the deceased COVID-19 patients so far, the state government plans to give Rs 50,000 to each family. Is. Although a total of 1,42,151 corona deaths have been registered in the state, applications have reached more than this. According to the Times of India report, the claims received from some districts are much higher than the total Covid deaths. Officials said that the discrepancy is due to multiple claims filed by the same family.
BMC has received 34,642 claims against 16,546 deaths till Tuesday morning. Similarly, Thane Municipal Corporation has received 4,723 claims, recording 2,132 Covid deaths. In fact, after the order given by the Supreme Court, the state had started paying claims to the relatives of the COVID deceased from December. After this, in 1.5 months, the state government has approved 1.07 lakh applications and another 24,000 are in the final stages of approval. It is being told that it is expected to be completed in the next two days.
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The report quoted officials as saying that the large number of applications is the result of multiple applications by the same person or applications by different relatives of the same family. About 51,000 such applications have been rejected, out of which 13,000 have applied for appeal to the district committee. Out of the total applications received, 1.99 lakh have been examined by doctors for the cause of death.