Tag: Mahaprayana

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OTV impact: 'Mahaprayana' now a free service for poor

A day after OTV exposed the little known fact that the Mahaprayana scheme launched last Thursday is a ‘pay and use’ service irrespective of the financial background of the people, the Odisha government today made a hurried announcement that it will make necessary changes in the guidelines of the scheme to ensure that the poor and the distressed avail the scheme free of cost

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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How beneficial is Mahaprayana scheme to the poor?

Though the Odisha government had launched Mahaprayana scheme on August 25 to provide vehicles to poor family members to carry the dead bodies of their near and dear ones who die in hospitals to their homes free of cost a day after the heart wrenching incident in which a poor man of Melhghar village of Kalahandi district had carried the body of his wife from the district headquarters hospital, the guidelines of the scheme tell a different story

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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Naveen launches ‘Mahaprayana’ scheme

Cuttack: A day after a man was seen carrying his wife’s body on his shoulders for about 12 kms after he failed to obtain a mortuary van or an ambulance from the hospital authorities in Bhawanipatna, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday launched the Mahaprayan scheme at Bajapur under Mahanga block. Family members will be […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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