{"id":426988,"date":"2021-07-22T16:46:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T11:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=426988"},"modified":"2021-07-22T16:46:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T11:16:33","slug":"covid-claimed-lives-of-56-air-india-employees-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-claimed-lives-of-56-air-india-employees-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid claimed lives of 56 Air India employees: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 56 Air India employees have died due to COVID-19 till July 14, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh said on Thursday. &#8220;A total of 3,523 employees of Air India Limited have been affected by COVID-19. Out of this, 56 employees succumbed to this pandemic till July 14, 2021,&#8221; he stated in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said the national carrier has taken various measures to safeguard the interests of COVID-affected employees and their families.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the carrier paid a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family of each permanent employee who died due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>When a fixed-term contractual employee died due to COVID-19, Air India paid his or her family a compensation of Rs 5 lakh, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Employees infected with COVID-19 were granted a paid quarantine leave of 17 days, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reimbursement of vaccination charges are being provided to employees and their families if paid by them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said medical facilities were also being provided to Covid-positive employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 56 Air India employees have died due to COVID-19 till July 14, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh said on Thursday. &#8220;A total of 3,523 employees of Air India Limited have been affected by COVID-19. Out of this, 56 employees succumbed to this pandemic till July 14, 2021,&#8221; he stated in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha. The minister said the national carrier has taken various measures to safeguard the interests of COVID-affected employees and their families. He stated that the carrier paid a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426988","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}