THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Supreme Court criticizing the state government for slow disbursal of Covid-19 ex-gratia relief and the state making necessary changes in the procedures for sanctioning the funds to the beneficiaries, as many as 90.07% of the claims have been cleared by the state by Monday evening.
Of the 44,864 applications received by the districts for the ex-gratia relief, 40,410 applications have been processed and approved. As much as Rs 150,85,64,425 has been disbursed to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries. Among the districts, Kasaragod (97.80%), Wayanad (96.42%) and Kannur (95.11%) are those which have processed and cleared the maximum number of applications.
