After reports surfaced in the media that the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) is using dog crematorium to cremate bodies died of Covid-19, the civic body refuted the charges saying that it has no dog crematorium in south Delhi.
“We have has 4-acre land in Dwarka Sector 29. There is a dog sterilisation centre on the right side of it. There is no dog crematorium anywhere on that land. In fact in whole of South Delhi, SDMC has no dog crematorium,” the civic body said in a statement.
The civic body said that pyres are being constructed in the areas so that the deceased can be given dignified last rites. This centre will be used only when capacity of all other Covid crematoriums are exhausted, it said.