‘Giving a dignified funeral is a noble act’
The Hindu
Annam Seva Foundation so far conducted funerals of around 200 COVID-19 victims
Amid the COVID-19 gloom, volunteers of the town-based Annam Seva Foundation turned Good Samaritans for grieving families of two COVID-19 victims by performing their final rites in Hyderabad on Tuesday, where the latter succumbed to COVID-19 at separate hospitals in the wee hours of the day. The pandemic robbed the two bereaved families of Khammam town a chance to conduct the funeral of the deceased (two elderly women) in their hometown as some immediate family members of the deceased were home quarantined, sources said. Acting on requests made by the bereaved family, Annam Seva Foundation founder and para-legal volunteer Annam Srinivas Rao and his team members rushed to Hyderabad in an ambulance and conducted the funeral of the two COVID-19 victims.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.