{"id":419442,"date":"2021-06-09T11:54:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T06:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419442"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T07:14:05","slug":"pilots-body-moves-hc-seeks-compensation-for-covid-19-death-priority-in-vaccination-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilots-body-moves-hc-seeks-compensation-for-covid-19-death-priority-in-vaccination-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots&#8217; body moves HC; seeks compensation for COVID-19 death, priority in vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An association of Indian pilots has approached the Bombay High Court seeking schemes for adequate compensation for pilots who died of COVID-19 or got infected by it, priority in vaccination against the disease and insurance coverage for those working during the pandemic. The petition, filed by the &#8216;Federation of Indian Pilots&#8217; on June 7, said pilots are providing essential services, and sought a direction to the Union government to provide an ex-gratia amount of Rs 10 crore to the families of pilots who died due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>As per the public interest litigation (PIL), since February 2021, 13 pilots have succumbed to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The petition said since March 2020, all airlines and pilots are diligently working to operate the &#8216;Vande Bharat&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An association of Indian pilots has approached the Bombay High Court seeking schemes for adequate compensation for pilots who died of COVID-19 or got infected by it, priority in vaccination against the disease and insurance coverage for those working during the pandemic. The petition, filed by the &#8216;Federation of Indian Pilots&#8217; on June 7, said pilots are providing essential services, and sought a direction to the Union government to provide an ex-gratia amount of Rs 10 crore to the families of pilots who died due to COVID-19. As per the public interest litigation (PIL), since February 2021, 13 pilots have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}