Tag: Mahaprayan Scheme

Nilagiri: After the State government directed the Balasore district Collector to probe into the incident of a man carrying the dead body of his son on a trolley due to unavailability of a Mahaprayan vehicle, the ADM and Sub-Collector reached the district headquarters hospital to probe into failure of Mahaprayan. The Commissioner-cum-Secretary of Health and […]

Cuttack: With instances of dead bodies being carried on shoulders and other means continue to be reported every now and then in Odisha, the Mahaprayan vehicles are gathering dust in several government hospitals including at City Hospital and Sishu Bhawan in Cuttack which has now emerged as a major concern for many. The Mahaprayan hearse […]

Finding no other option, the son of the deceased shouldered the body for half a kilometer and then hired an auto rickshaw to reach his village.

Ganjam: Already four years into the launch of ‘Mahaprayan’ scheme in Odisha, yet the service delivery mechanism and implementation of the same continue to remain under the cloud. Mahaprayan scheme was launched in 2016 by CM Naveen Patnaik to offer free hearse service from government hospitals to the residence of the deceased. But are people […]