The Pioneer 10.12.2010
Coming up soon, electric crematorium in PatialaJagdeep Chopra | Patiala
City would get the first electric crematorium soon with the general house of the municipal corporation giving nod for this vary proposal by a voice vote in view of the general demand of the public.
Commissioner of the Corporation Manjit Singh Narang said that since the long time the corporation has been receiving a demand in this connection from many quarters and in view of the ever increasing demand the item was put on the agenda to get nod of the general house, which today put up its stamp on the project.
He said that though the corporation has moved the proposal for the setting up of three electric crematoriums in the city but only one gets the approval and now the corporation will set up first electric crematorium at the Birji Dasondhi Ram crematorium situated on Patiala-Rajpura road here.
When asked about the total costing of this project, the commissioner said that initially the project has been chalked out gets approval of the house and now the major work will start. He said that a special high tension power line is needed to run the system at the site and this power line will be of hot line as it has to supply continuous supply of power to run this project.
Narang admitted that after the project becomes functional it will provide relief to many as it will become easy to cremate the unclaimed dead bodies so easily and the public in general will also get relief from facing the difficulties during the winter and the rainy season for the cremations of their near and dear ones.
