₹4 lakh due to financial constraints The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday directed the central government to frame within six weeks the guidelines for providing a minimum relief to the kin of those who succumbed to Covid-19. "The National Disaster Management Authority has a statutory obligation to frame guidelines for minimum ex-gratia assistance for the victims of Covid pandemic," the court said.
The court held that section 12 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, will include an ex-gratia and rejected the central government's argument that it was not a mandatory provision.
However, the top court noted that it cannot direct an amount that the Centre will have to pay. It stated that the NDMA failed to discharge its functions by not