: A Jharkhand town hired workers to handle Covid-19 bodies – and then forgot they existed #IndiaNEWS Before the pandemic, the young computer applications graduate had been in charge of a coaching

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A Jharkhand town hired workers to handle Covid-19 bodies – and then forgot they existed #IndiaNEWS
Before the pandemic, the young computer applications graduate had been in charge of a coaching centre in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district. Then Covid-19 hit India in March 2020 and the coaching centre shut down. He went on to volunteer with the local branch of the Safai Karmachari Andolan, Jharkhand. But the NGO also shut down. As his savings dried up, he grew desperate.Then in April this year, as the second wave struck India, he heard of a new job. The work was grim but there were perks – Rs 15,000 a month and the promise of continued employment even after the second wave waned. The Chas municipality in Bokaro district was trying to form a “Covid Dead Body Management Team�.Their job: to ferry the bodies of the people who had died of Covid-19 from the Sadar Hospital, the main government hospital in the town of Chas to the Shri Shamshan Kali Mandir Trust Crematorium, popularly known as Chas Shamshan Ghat.For months, the eight members of the Covid Dead Body Management team worked round the clock. According to team members, they were not tested for Covid-19 and from April 27, when the team was formed, to July 27, when the second wave was already tapering...Read more

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