Alert! Government employees dependents in Bihar to get these Covid-19 benefits
Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government has taken a major decision for dependents of government employees who die of COVID-19 while on duty.
Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government has taken a major decision for dependents of government employees who die of COVID-19 while on duty. Bihar Cabinet has given its nod to 'special family pension' for dependents of govt staff who die of COVID-19. This decision will be effective from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021. The decision assumes significance in view of a number of government staff succumbing to COVID-19 infection while discharging their duty.
Also, the dependents of a government employees, who die of COVID-19 while on duty, will be given the benefit of compassionate grounds for getting a job, besides other existing benefits, according to a confirmation by Cabinet Secretariat Department's Special Secretary Mithilesh Kumar Singh.
If the dependent doesn't want to avail the benefit of compassionate ground, then the family will be given full salary of the staff, who died due to COVID-19, as "special family pension" till the date of retirement, Mithilesh Kumar Singh added.
The cabinet meeting, which was chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, took 29 decisions including on 11 legislative matters which are likely to be tabled in the four-day Monsoon session of the Bihar Legislative Assembly beginning August 3.
Meanwhile, India's COVID-19 tally went past 15 lakh on Wednesday, two days after it crossed the 14-lakh mark, with 48,513 fresh cases recorded in a day while the recoveries surged to 9,88,029, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases climbed to 15,31,669, while the country's death toll due to the disease rose to 34,193 with 768 deaths being reported in a 24-hour span, the data updated at 8 am showed. There are 5,09,447 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country presently. The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients has risen to 64.51 per cent. The total number of confirmed cases also includes foreigners.
This is the seventh consecutive day that COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 45,000.
According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 1,77,43,740 samples have been tested up to July 28 with 4,08,855 samples being tested on Tuesday.
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