disaster management act

Kerala High Court division bench noted that the Act 2005 is an Act to provide for the effective management of disasters and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Gauhati High Court division bench disposes of a PIL filed by the practising lawyer of the Gauhati High Court raised some relevant and necessary issues.

Allahabad High Court division bench while hearing a petition filed by Kusum Lata Yadav ordered the State Government to release the ex-gratia payment to the dependents of such individuals who died due to COVID in and around their election duty during COVID-19 second wave.

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The Supreme Court has granted another 4 weeks' time for the Centre to comply with the judgment and frame guidelines in the plea seeking ex-gratia assistance to the families of people who died due to Covid-19.

While observing that the centre could not stay away from paying the amount to the kin of Covid-19 patients who died, the Court asked NDMA to frame guidelines in this regard while abstaining from specifying the compensation.

Recent disagreements between the Union and states have shown that federalism can succeed only if both run administrations according to the Constitution, constitutionalism and constitutional morality.

The petitioner being IAS has no intention to malign the image of the Government but only, by posting the contents and news items, wants to draw the attention of the Government towards the problems faced by the citizens during the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic.

Direct state governments to set up electric and other crematoriums in all cities and also maintain and improve the condition of existing electric crematoriums.

Petitioner Advocate has pointed out that Section 12 of the Disaster Management Act mandates payment of Ex-Gratia amount to the person affected by the Disaster.