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Not ‘actual’ COVID work: Centre rejects most BMC officials' pleas
Updated On: 27 February, 2021 08:20 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
BMC has been compensating the families of over half of its deceased frontline workers whose applications have been rejected by the Centre
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A BMC worker prepares for antigen tests of passengers arriving at Dadar station. Pic/Ashish Raje
The central government had announced a compensation of '50 lakh each to Corona warriors who died in the line of duty, however, it has rejected the majority of the BMC's applications stating that they were not involved in 'actual' COVID-19 work, civic officials said on Friday.
Civic medical workers take the body of a COVID-19 victim to the mortuary at Sion hospital in July 2020. File pic/Shadab Khan
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