Bengal keeps vigil for corpses in Ganga
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Corpses of suspected COVID-19 sufferers have been discovered floating in the river in UP and Bihar
The West Bengal authorities has stepped up vigil in the areas the place the Ganga enters the State, after reviews of corpses of suspected COVID-19 sufferers discovered floating in the river in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
Senior authorities officers on Thursday spoke to their counterparts in the Bihar administration and urged them that corpses mustn’t come downstream. The Ganga enters West Bengal in Malda district, notably in from areas in the Manikchak police station limits.
Officials of the district police and the forest division have been patrolling the river in the areas over the previous few days. Boats and velocity boats have been saved prepared.
Malda District Magistrate Rajarshi Mitra has stated that to this point there are not any reviews of any corpses floating in the river in the district. If any corpse is discovered floating in the river, it will likely be disposed of as per COVID-19 pointers, he added.
The river enters Malda from Jharkhand after which flows in Murshidabad district the place at Farraka, it bifurcates in distributaries, the Padma that enters Bangladesh and the Hooghly that flows southwards throughout a number of districts of the State earlier than assembly the Bay of Bengal on the Sagar Island.
West Bengal Minister and chairman of the board of directors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Firhad Hakim stated it was a matter of nice concern if corpses of suspected COVID-19 sufferers come downstream into West Bengal.
“I am very scared. We are using the river water after proper treatment. Civic officials have been directed be more cautious. This is all because of the callousness of the Uttar Pradesh government,” he said.
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