New Delhi: The Centre issued instructions to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar governments to prevent dumping of useless bodies of suspected COVID-19 victims in Ganga and its tributaries seen floating in the waters following an increase in the quantity of coronavirus circumstances calling it “most undesirable and alarming”.
At a overview assembly which was performed on May 15-16, the Centre stated dumping of useless bodies and partially burnt or decomposed corpses in the Ganga and its tributaries needs to be prevented and insisted that the main focus needs to be on the protected, dignified cremation of corpses.
“Namami Gange directs states to prevent dumping of dead bodies in the Ganga and focus on their safe disposal and providing support for ensuring dignified cremation,” the Jal Shakti Ministry stated.
Further extra, the state air pollution management boards had been directed to monitor the water high quality extra continuously in consultations with the well being departments. While, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) was assigned the duty of general monitoring, offering steerage to the state air pollution management boards and taking over superior evaluation in the matter.
The ministry stated that help for cremation wants to be given prime precedence and efficient implementation of authorities orders wants to be ensured with shedding any time.
On May 10 a number of unidentified bodies had been discovered floating in Ganga in UP and Bihar. On Wednesday, all of the bodies recovered in Ghazipur and Ballia districts had been cremated and investigations had been initiated to discover out the place the bodies had been immersed in the river.
On Saturday, Uttar Pradesh spokesman Navneet Sehgal denied media stories that as many as 2,000 corpses of attainable virus victims had been pulled from rivers in the state and neighbouring Bihar in latest days. “We keep recovering 10 to 20 bodies every now and then,” Sehgal informed Reuters.
An advisory was issued by Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga, to the district magistrates, who’re additionally the chairpersons of the district Ganga committees, on May 11.
