Tag: Mahaprayan

Keonjhar: In yet another instance of disrespect towards the dead,body of tribal youth was carried on trolley after his relatives were allegedly denied ‘Mahaprayan’ van, the government-sponsored hearse. The shocking incident was reported from Dhobadiha area in the districts today. The deceased Kalia used to work as a labourer in the municipality. “Kalia worked as […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the body of an old woman was carried on shoulders from a hospital in Sorada of Ganjam district, Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan and his senior cabinet colleague Jual Oram harangued the State Government and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for ‘failure’ of the Mahaprayan vehicle meant for carrying dead bodies from hospital […]

Puri: Cases of dishonour to dead bodies are becoming frequent in the State with another such incident occurring in Puri late last night. A resident of Balisahi area took the dead body of his minor daughter from the district hospital to the Swargadwara in a trolley rickshaw due to alleged non-availability of Mahaprayan or the […]

Phulbani: Failure of the Mahaprayan scheme in Odisha once again came to fore after the dead body of a minor girl was seen carried on a stretcher by her family members at Phulbani in Kandhamal district today. The minor girl, a resident of Benangapaju village under Khajuriapara police limits of the district, had drowned while […]

Nilagiri: In yet another shameful incident, a father had to carry dead body of his minor son on a trolley from Nilagiri hospital in Balasore district today after he was unable to get a vehicle under the Mahaprayan scheme. According to sources, six-year-old Krishna, the son of Tunaram Singh, had been rushed to the hospital […]

Ganjam: Though the Odisha government claims to have launched the ‘Mahaprayana’ scheme to facilitate the transport of dead bodies from hospitals, family members of a woman who died at a hospital in Ganjam alleged that they had to carry her body on shoulders for 2 kms to reach home as no transport facility was available […]