US organisation to donate cremation furnace: Darbhanga DM

DARBHANGA: Kabir Seva Sansthan (KSS), a local social organisation established in 2014 for cremation and burial of unclaimed human bodies as well as for providing help to relatives unable to afford cremation/burial of their kin, has been doing a yeoman service and its role in disposing of large number of bodies of Covid victims has drawn the attention of an American organisation, the Federation of Indian Association (FIA), which has decided to donate a gas-cum-electric cremation furnace for cremation of bodies at Mukti Dham, a funeral venue at Bhigo Mohalla here.
Darbhanga DM Thyagrajan S M on Sunday said an FIA representative contacted him for the donation of furnace and was given green signal after approval from the district disaster management authority and an NOC from Darbhanga Municipal Corporation.
“The KSS helps the administration in disposal of bodies,” the DM said, adding an engineer from a Haryana-based company visited the Mukti Dham on Friday for overseeing the prospect of installation of cremation furnace. “The furnace is expected to become operational in the first week of June,” the DM said, the FIA will pay the company for installation of the equipment.