Kin of media personnel dying of COVID in Chhattisgarh to get Rs 5 lakh.
The Chhattisgarh authorities will present Rs 5 lakh as monetary help to kin of media personnel succumbing to COVID-19, officers mentioned on Sunday.
A state authorities launch mentioned the help could be supplied beneath the Media Representative Welfare Assistance Rules.
“The state government will also reimburse the expenses incurred in the treatment of media personnel who have been admitted to hospital for COVID-19. Information about families of media personnel afflicted with COVID-19 is being collected by the Directorate of Public Relations,” it added.
Those eligible for such assist should submit purposes in a prescribed format to the general public relations workplace in their districts, it mentioned, including {that a} assembly of the Journalist Welfare Fund Committee can be held quickly to present monetary help to media personnel.
