* Indian residents, mainly from the Indian State of Kerala, are demanding this inclusion in the Kerala list so that their next of kin get the ex gratia assistance recommended by the Supreme Court of India.
* Non-Resident Indians in the UAE are exploring legal platforms to ensure that the expatriate Indians get ex gratia aid for families of expats died due to Covid-19.
There has been demand to include those Non-Resident-Indians (NRIs) who have died on a foreign land due to Covid-19 to include in the list India Covid-19 casualty list.
Indian residents, mainly from the Indian State of Kerala, are demanding this inclusion in the Kerala list so that their next of kin get the ex gratia assistance recommended by the Supreme Court of India.
The demand, which for some time got subsided, has picked up again and there is pressure on the state government to do something.
Some informed sources, however, are saying that what to talk about including NRIs into the Covid casualty list, the office dedicated to it in Kerala and known as NORKA – Roots does not have any record.
“The department of non-resident Keralites (NORKA-Roots) is clueless about the number of Keralites died due to Covid-19. They are busy only counting the number of people coming back Kerala during the pandemic,” said a peeved Kerala resident who lost his close kin UAE.