Thiruvananthapuram: The Kottayam district of Kerala prides itself on being India’s first fully literate city since 1989, but the city known for its higher human progression rate and even a two-century school had its misfortune on Sunday night.
Like ignorant mobs in other parts of India who feared that even the burial of COVID-19 patients would spread a coronavirus nearby, there were rebel scenes in Muttambalam in the city of Kottayam when the government was ready to create the framework of a COVID-19. victim, known as Ouseph George, 83.
For about four and a half hours, local citizens demonstrated in front of the public crematorium. Although police and municipal officials tried to get citizens to perceive that a victim’s funeral would spread the coronavirus, the local population organized a sit-and-go demonstration and even erected a transitional fence on the front of the crematorium.
Residents of the agreement near Via Ambedkar argued that the frame should be taken to the crematorium by a road through the agreement and that there were houses near the crematorium.
Some citizens opposed George’s cremation in the public crematorium rather than at the parish church of the deceased in Chungam, Kottayam. However, the government’s fitness to continue cremation in the public crematorium, in accordance with COVID-19 protocols.
The protests intensified when local parish councillor T. N. Harikumar, who represents the Bharatiya Janata party, also joined them, and dozens of women also joined the demonstrators. The protests began around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, it continued until about 7 p.m., when police and the district’s administrative government withdrew from the venue after meetings with local leaders.
Later that night, the district administration will continue with the cremation. In an immediate move, the frame was taken to the crematorium around 10:45 p.m. and a giant police organization blocked the front of the crematorium even when local citizens learned of the cremation. The cremation ended in about an hour.
On social media, several others said it was a “moment of shame” for the country’s first fully literate city to oppose the cremation of a COVID-19 victim.
The government indicated that the cremation was carried out following the strict COVID-19 protocols in the municipal crematorium.
It was in 1989 that the city of Kottayam became the first city in India to achieve general literacy. This triggered an over-state wave to achieve overall literacy. Ernakulam has become the first district to do so and later in the 14 districts to achieve this status, making Kerala India the first fully literate state in India.
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