Goemkarponn desk
PORVORIM: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today announced that the state government will release compensation to families of COVID-19 affected from Monday.
CM also said that govt has received 200 applications from families of COVID affected families.
“I had made a promise of releasing the compensation by Ganesh Chaturthi. The compensation will be released to all the families by coming Monday,” said CM Sawant addressing the media.
He further said that some families were facing difficulties pertaining to the forms and other documents, due to which the state government has made the process much simpler.
“200 applications had been received from the families who lost their loved ones due to COVID19. All the applications received are being processed, and compensation will be released to them,” CM assured.
With the rise in COVID-related deaths, the state cabinet approved a compensation scheme of ₹2 lakh each for the kin of COVID-19 victims who were sole earning members or came from poor backgrounds.
On July 1, 2021, the Government of Goa had notified the Ex-Gratia Financial Assistance scheme to provide a one-time ex-gratia of Rs. 2.00 Lakhs to families of the deceased victim due to Covid-19 infection whose income limit does not exceed Rs. 8.00 Lakhs per annum subject to a maximum of one claim per family.
