The State Government has released a compensation of ₹3.96 crore to 396 below poverty line families whose members died of COVID-19 in Belagavi, district in-charge Minister Govid Karjol said in Belagavi on Wednesday. Each one of these families have received ₹1 lakh.
The other 316 families of victims of the epidemic have been given ₹50,000 each that was given by the Union Government, the Minister said in his Republic Day speech.