Modi government approves financial assistance to 67 families of journalists affected due to COVID-19

COVID-19 Latest News Today: The Narendra Modi Government will provide financial assistance to the journalists who have lost their lives to COVID-19. On Thursday, the central government announced that it will provide financial relief of Rs 5 lakh to each of the families of 26 journalists who died due to Covid-19. 

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The Central Government approved a proposal of Journalist Welfare Scheme Committee headed by Amit Khare, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

The government had provided assistance to 41 families of journalists who died due to COVID-19 disease during the financial year 2020-21,  taking the overall tally to 67.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Press Information Bureau (PIB) have compiled and collated the details of journalists who lost their lives during the previous financial year. 

The initiative is part of a special drive to provide assistance to the families of deceased journalist under the Journalist Welfare Scheme (JWS).

The release further said that JWS meetings will happen on weekly basis so that applications for financial assistance under JWS can be processed expeditiously. 

While expressing condolences to the families of the journalists who lost their lives, the committee also considered applications of 11 families of those journalists who had passed away due to reasons other than COVID-19.

On Friday, as per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW),1.86 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases were registered over the last 24 hours, and this has been the lowest daily new cases in the last 44 days. Currently, the weekly positivity rate stands at 10.42 per cent. A total number of 3,18,895 COVID-19 related death cases have been reported in the country so far.