{"id":10617,"date":"2020-07-30T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=10617"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:45:07","slug":"covid-19-kin-of-two-scribes-in-odisha-to-get-rs-15-lakh-each-as-ex-gratia-bhubaneswar-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=10617","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Kin of two scribes in Odisha to get Rs 15 lakh each as ex-gratia | Bhubaneswar News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>BHUBANESWAR: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/naveen-patnaik\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_naveen-patnaik\" frmappuse=\"1\">Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik<\/a> on Thursday sanctioned an ex-gratia of Rs 15 lakh each for the families of two journalists who died of Covid-19, official sources said. Ganjam-based Priyadarshi Patnaik of local daily Samaja and Gajapati resident K Ch Ratnam of Eenadu newspaper succumbed to the viral disease earlier this month. <br \/> &#8220;I thank the chief minister for supporting the journalists&#8217; families,&#8221; Manas Mangaraj, the adviser to the state Information and Public Relations Department, said in a statement. <br \/> The state government had in April announced an ex-gratia of Rs 50 lakh for families of all frontline workers &#8211; doctors and other health care professionals &#8211; who die due the infection during the course of their work. <br \/> It had also promised a compensation of Rs 15 lakh to the next of kin of journalists who succumb to the infection. <br \/> Similarly, family members of deceased ASHA and Anganwadi workers have been assured a monthly pension till the age of 60. <br \/> Meanwhile, teachers in Ganjam have demanded due recognition for their colleagues engaged in making arrangements for migrant workers at temporary medical centres, set up in local schools. <br \/> The administration in Ganjam has already feted some teachers, who lost their lives in the fight against the pandemic, as &#8216;Covid Warriors&#8217;, but the state is yet to make any announcement in this regard, an official said. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bhubaneswar\/covid-19-kin-of-two-scribes-in-odisha-to-get-rs-15-lakh-each-as-ex-gratia\/articleshow\/77263806.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday sanctioned an ex-gratia of Rs 15 lakh each for the families of two journalists who died of Covid-19, official sources said. Ganjam-based Priyadarshi Patnaik of local daily Samaja and Gajapati resident K Ch Ratnam of Eenadu newspaper succumbed to the viral disease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1596116708_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}