Eco-friendly facility in Secunderabad Cantonment to perform last rites of victims

SECUNDERABAD: An eco-friendly crematorium, Swarga Vatika, in Secunderabad Cantonment, which is run by a private management, has come forward to perform the last rites of those who have died of Covid-19.
Representatives of the organisation will perform funeral services on the lines of civic body-designated crematoriums in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
The crematorium is built on 1,300 square metres with public-private partnership between the state government and Swarg Vatika Trust.
Cremations are done in three systems — LPG/CNG, gasifier and biogas.
As there is a spike in Covid cases in the current situation, the trust is offering to perform final rites of Covid victims, while most of the bereaved families are preferring their kith and kin be cremated at designated crematoriums in the GHMC limits.
“The trust is willing to give exemption to Covid victims for cremation at Swarg Vatika, free of cost, provided the state government permits us, and it is clear that we are ready to perform rites without collecting any charge,” Swarg Vatika Trust president Surender Pal Singh told TOI.
During the first wave of Covid-19, 40 to 60 bodies of Covid victims arrived at this crematorium, but during the second wave, no dead body related to Covid-19 has arrived so far, added Singh.