Leading Lights: Revenue officials and NGOs offer to take care of Corona patients and victim’s bodies
Ferozepur, April 10, 2020: Amid Corona upset, the Kanungo Association and NGOs, showing an exemplary sense of social responsibility, have unanimously and voluntarily offered their services to take care of Corona patients and victim’s bodies, if none of their relatives come forward to help.
Earlier also, Sarpanch Panwinder Singh Sandhu alias Mani and Gurnam Singh Tibbi of Shaheed-e-Vatan Youth Organization and Green Field Resort had offered their services to provide own land for cremation.
Today, Cashier Santokh Singh of Revenue Kanungo Association, Lekh Raj of Mandar Baba Janam Nath Society and Vipan Kumar, after having a meeting with the Deputy Commissioner Kulwant Singh, have taken the responsibility to take care of corona patients and cremation of corona victim’s bodies.
Santokh Singh said, sometime back, there was a problem over the cremation of suspected corona patient and DC had made an appeal for cooperation instead of protest. Taking this disturbing incident of people denying cremation of the victims under a misplaced fear of contracting the deadly virus if they allowed so in their vicinity, we have voluntarily offered our services.
Appreciating the gesture of these volunteers in crisis hour, Kulwant Singh, Deputy Commissioner said, there is a certain case when after the death of a corona patient, the family members have backed out for cremation and accepting the dead body. He said the offer of these NGOs is like a leading light for others and the government, as a part of the strategy adopted to fight the virus and need to be adopted by other NGOs statewide, taking the spirit from Ferozepur NGOs.
Added here, the gesture is appreciable by one and all as it has come at a time when the government is all out to convince people about the ill-effects of corona victims cremation as being unfounded. On April 9, 2020, two Punjab ministers Balbir Singh Sidhu and Charanjit Singh Channi had also personally attended the funeral of a victim in this district to drive home the point.
Even the panchayat of village Ghanauli in Rupnagar district on April 10, 2020 passed a resolution in which the Deputy Commissioner has been apprised about its decision to allow cremation of the unfortunate victims belonging to any part of the district. Notably, the panchayat is headed by a young, educated and married young woman Kamaljit Kaur.