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Formal operation of the Rs 20 lakh facility expected to start in February

The management committee at the Parvati ghat in Jugsalai is set to install an additional furnace operated by gas to cremate bodies soon.  A representative from an Ahmedabad-based agency, which specializes in manufacturing gas-operated furnaces, visited Parvati ghat for site inspection on Tuesday. There are two electric furnaces at the crematorium but one is presently non-operational due to some technical glitches. Ghat managing committee general secretary Dipendra Bhatt confirmed the same. “...

“Over 40 Covid bodies are coming for cremation daily. It was 46 on Tuesday while 53 bodies were cremated a day before (Monday). It is obvious for the furnaces to stop functioning,” he said. The ghat management committee is spending sleepless nights as Covid bodies are coming one after another. “We spend day and night at the crematorium to complete the formalities. The situation was not like this last year in Covid times,” Rao said. He pointed out that the furnaces would again stop funct...

Jamshedpur crematoriums reach full capacity Vacant spaces being utilised on premises, bodies coming in at four times the usual count The steel city’s burning ghats are witnessing a manifold increase in bodies arriving for cremations in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Over 40 bodies are being cremated at Subarnarekha Ghat in Bhuiyandih and Parvati Ghat in Jugsalai respectively. In pre-Covi...