This story is from May 19, 2021

Tell people not to immerse dead bodies in Ganga: Kanpur Vigilance Panel

The vigilance committee of Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) at a meeting held with mayor Pramila Pandey and municipal commissioner Akshya Tripathi on Tuesday stressed on creating awareness among the people not to immerse dead bodies in Ganga.
Tell people not to immerse dead bodies in Ganga: Kanpur Vigilance Panel
A worker prepares for the supply of medical oxygen at Hallet Hospital
KANPUR: The vigilance committee of Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) at a meeting held with mayor Pramila Pandey and municipal commissioner Akshya Tripathi on Tuesday stressed on creating awareness among the people not to immerse dead bodies in Ganga.
In compliance with the government order, the committee was constituted to check immersion of unclaimed dead bodies in Ganga in the urban areas.
The committee comprises of ten corporators--Kailash Pandey, deputy chairman, working committee, Yashpal Singh, Amod Tripathi, Vikas Jaiswal, Ajit, Sharad Prakash Mishra, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Madan Babu, Kirti Agnihotri, Saurabh Dev and Dr Ajay Sankhwar, health officer, S K Singh, chief engineer (civil) and RK Pal, in-charge of road light.

The committee suggested to make residents aware about the outcome of immersion of dead bodies in the river. Sign boards be displayed at all ghats of the river and contact numbers of the vigilance committee be displayed so that people could contact them, the committee suggested.
The municipal commissioner said the courts and the state government had clearly directed to keep the Ganga free from pollution. “The main object of the vigilance committee is to ask people not to immerse the unclaimed or claimed dead bodies in the river. KMC has made arrangement for free cremation of unclaimed dead bodies in the electric crematorium”, he said. Similarly, Covid-19 bodies and the bodies of the poor and destitute families would be cremated free of cost, he added.

Mayor Pramila Pandey while lauding the efforts of KMCs sanitary workers, municipal commissioner, chief engineer and corporators, said that they had played their role beautifully. The proposals presented by the members were good and in view of the present pandemic, funds would be allocated to meet it in the original budget of the financial year 2021-22.
Meanwhile, the KMC teams sanitized as many as 8295 places of the city by using anti-smog gun, jetting /fog machines and spray machines.
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