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Two green crematoriums in Varanasi, also known as greenatorium, enabling last rites with wood in electric crematorium, are also being installed under the ongoing Kashi Vishwanath Dham (Corridor) project. ....
The Manikarnika Ghat, one of the most sacred cremation grounds, is now being expanded with 18 more pyre frames on three platforms as death counts due to Covid refuses to subside.Two green crematoriums, also known as greenatorium, enabling last . ....
View of Harishchandra Ghat in Varanasi on Tuesday evening VARANASI: The rush of bodies at the Manikarnika and Harischandra ghats in Varanasi has eased as Covid cases and casualties have come down, but a sudden increase in sighting of bodies in the Ganga in downstream district Ghazipur on the interstate border near Buxar district of Bihar has sparked panic among locals. Ghazipur officials swung into action after bodies were found near Chausaghat, Buxar following which officials of Bihar claimed the corpses had flowed down from UP. As villagers panicked suspecting threat of outbreak of epidemic due to rotting bodies and sounded alarm, the district magistrates of Ghazipur and Buxar rushed SDMs, Ramesh Maurya of Sevarai and K K Pathak of Buxar for fact finding. ....
UP: Cremation grounds expand as Covid deaths mount By IANS | 3 Views 4 UP private hospitals served notices after 48 Covid deaths. Image Source: IANS News Lucknow/Varanasi, April 23 : Over the years, these cities have swelled in size but their cremation grounds have not - not till the second wave of pandemic arrived a few weeks ago. The cremation grounds in Lucknow, Varanasi and Prayagraj are now unable to cope with the rush of bodies for cremation and pyres are now being lit on any open ground available nearby. In Lucknow, the cremation grounds in Bhainsakund-renamed Baikunth Dham- and Gulala Ghat can no longer bear the burden of bodies that are coming in at an alarming frequency. ....
Varanasi: The rising toll of the lethal Covid second wave has left people across the world terrified and anxious, but death in the sacred city of Kashi is still considered a bliss. When most ghats along the Ganga wore a deserted look due to Covid scare, a group of sex workers could be seen dancing at the Manikarnika Ghat, the ‘mahashamshan’ where the fire of pyres never extinguishes. Maintaining their age-old tradition, the sex workers, referred to as ‘nagar vadhoos’, performed dance before Maha Shamshan Nath, the lord of cremation ground, on the seventh night of Chaitra Navratra on Monday, when the three-day ‘shringar’ of the deity concluded. ....