COVID-19: Kejriwal launches scheme to provide relief to families who lost kin

Delhi government representatives will go to the houses of the affected families and help them as much as possible in the necessary paperwork, says the Chief Minister.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged government officials to establish a relationship with families who had lost their kin to COVID-19 in the process of providing financial relief to them. The Aam Aadmi Party supremo launched the government’s scheme to provide financial relief to such families via video conference even as the paperwork of such beneficiaries began at the offices of district administrations across the city. “The previous wave of COVID to hit Delhi was very severe, very deadly and claimed many lives; we heard of many cases where children were orphaned, or the sole earning member of a household was claimed by COVID,” Mr. Kejriwal said.