The Manikarnika Ghat is being expanded with 18 extra pyre frames on three platforms as loss of life counts due to Covid refuses to subside.
The Manikarnika Ghat, one of the sacred cremation grounds, is now being expanded with 18 extra pyre frames on three platforms as loss of life counts due to Covid refuses to subside.
Two inexperienced crematoriums, also called greenatorium, enabling final rites with wooden in electrical crematorium, are additionally being put in below the continued Kashi Vishwanath Dham (Corridor) undertaking.
The firm executing the KV Dham undertaking has began civil work, together with setting up retaining partitions of the expanded platforms on the cremation floor at warfare footing.
Old constructions, together with the steps main to Manikarnika Ghat and its outdated platforms, have been demolished.
Divisional Commissioner Deepak Agrawal mentioned, “Manikarnika Ghat is being renovated with 18 new pyre frames as part of KV Dham project. The cost of the renovation is included in the total cost budget Rs 339 crore of the KV Dham project, sanctioned for all construction work. The project is likely to be completed by November 15.”
Varanasi District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma mentioned, “Six new pyre frames will come on three platforms each downstairs for traditionally cremating the bodies along the Ganga bank. It will be handed over to the Dom Raja family after completion.”
He mentioned that it will finish the observe of burning our bodies in an unorganized approach and on the silt deposited close to ghats following the flood season. Existing pyres below tin-shade with chimneys should not being disturbed and two greenatoriums are additionally being constructed.
Municipal Commissioner Gaurang Rathi mentioned, “The greenatoriums comprise the facility of setting body on wood to burn in electric furnaces. It will enable people to perform traditional rituals on pyres. It reduces use of wood up to 80 per cent, which also brings down the cost of cremation. The site for establishing the greenatoriums at Manikarnika Ghat will be finalized soon.”
Some teams, together with one led by Baba Shamshan Nath Mandir Seva Samiti supervisor, Gulshan Kapoor, have opposed electrical crematorium at Manikarnika Ghat. They have claimed that ‘Shastras’ don’t permit this.
The second wave of the pandemic has seen an surprising rise in the variety of deaths, main to lengthy queues for cremations. With the growth of the cremation amenities, individuals will now not have to wait in queues to carry out final rites.
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