Second wave left 240 kids orphaned in Rajkot

Rajkot: In a tragic assessment of Covid-19 toll during the second wave, 240 children of Rajkot district have been left orphaned in the killer wave of the pandemic that hit the country in March this year.
Of them, 193 are those children who unfortunately had lost their only surviving parent to the killer virus, while 47 lost both parents during the second wave.
Rajkot district administration received as many applications under the chief minister child service scheme. The district women and children development department has received 47 applications from guardians and members of the society for these Covid-orphaned children.
Among the children who lost both the parents included three applications of children between 0 and 5 years, 11 each of those between six and 10 years and of children above 10 years. Of the 193 applications that the department received of kids whose single parent too succumbed to Covid include 27 for children below five years of age, 58 for children between six and 10 years and 108 for those above 10 years. TNN