new delhi the supreme court on monday refused to entertain a plea seeking formulation of a national policy for uniform compensation for families of those who have died due the coronavirus diseasea bench of justices ashok bhushan and r s reddy dismissed the plea saying that every state has a different policy and gives compensation as per its financial poweradvocate deepak prakash appearing for petitioner hashik thayikandy said that all he is asking for is a national policy to be formulated that would provide for uniform compensation throughout the countryso many people have died in india due to covid19 and the victims are not getting equal compensation he saidprakash said that in some cases the delhi government has given rs 1 crore as compensation while some states are giving rs 1 lakh there is no uniform policy on compensation he saidthe bench said it is dismissing the plea after which the counsel sought to withdraw itthe petitioner has also sought a direction to the centre as well as state governments to formulate an appropriate compensation plan to provide exgratia monetary compensation to the kin of essential workers and healthcare workers who have succumbed to covid19it has urged the court to seek a status report from state governments on the total number of covid19related causalities and measures taken by authorities for compensating for loss of life due to the coronavirus pandemicthe petition claimed that a majority of the countrys population belong to financially weaker sections wherein only one person is an earning member and others in the family are solely depend on that income for their sustenancethe said citizens are also the tax payers of our country in such a structure whereby the death rate is only increasing at an alarming rate per day it is imperative for the state to formulate appropriate guidelines on compassionate grounds for exgratia compensation to families of the covid19 casualties especially for frontline workers such as doctors nurses paramedical staff etc solely with the purpose of aiding the families for their basic survival and sustenance during this pandemic the plea saidpertinently the death of an indian citizen not only impacts hisher own personal life but it affects the lives of all the members of the family who were dependent on the sole source of income it saidin the event of a death of such a family member and while regarding the huge unemployment which covid19 has encompassed globally the dependents are with no finances for survival the plea filed by prakash saidit claimed that the death rate due to covid19 is exponentially increasing with each passing hour especially in cases of frontline workers such as police officials doctors paramedical staff government employees journalists thereby rendering the family of the deceased in an extremely vulnerable positiontill date covid19 has no curevaccine and has been declared as a notified disaster thus it is the duty of the state on compassionate grounds to provide relief to its citizens by adequately compensating the kin of the deceased in order