Help pours in for Good Samaritan

Ravinder Sood

Palampur, May 15

Parminder Bhatia, head of Shani Seva Sadan, Palampur, has received hundreds of calls since The Tribune highlighted his noble gesture of ensuring a dignified cremation of Covid victims in Palampur, at a time when family members, too, are hesitating from cremating them.

Queries started pouring in as soon as the news report titled “Good Samaritan ensures dignified last rites of Covid victims in Palampur” appeared in these columns last week.

Bhatia said that besides calls from residents of the town, he had received hundreds of calls from people of Delhi, Mumbai, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Shimla, Chandigarh, Gurgaon and even abroad, offering to contribute towards the cause.

“Ved Sood from America, Atul Thakur from Japan and Arun Singh Katoch from Dubai have already transferred money to my bank account in the past four days,” Bhatia added.

A number of scientists and teachers working in local institutions such as HP Agriculture University and the CSIR have also come forward to support his organisation.