NREGS worker dies of sunstroke

NREGS worker dies of sunstroke
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A 65-year-old National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) worker died due to sunstroke while cleaning Mankinapalli water tank at Kamavarapukota village in West Godavari district on Wednesday. According to officials, Kotipalli Satyanarayana was engaged in the Mankinapalli tank work since February this year

Dwaraka Tirumala: A 65-year-old National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) worker died due to sunstroke while cleaning Mankinapalli water tank at Kamavarapukota village in West Godavari district on Wednesday. According to officials, Kotipalli Satyanarayana was engaged in the Mankinapalli tank work since February this year. As usual, he went to the work in the morning and fell unconscious while on the job.

Other workers immediately rushed him to the Primary Health Centre (PHC) at Kamavarapukota. However, doctors declared him brought dead. ZPTC member G Sudheer Babu and MPTC Chilukuri Subba Rao extended financial assistance for the last rites of the worker. This is the second death in Kamavarapukota mandal due to heat wave. Earlier on April 22, 25-year-old J Ramesh, who was engaged in the NREGS works at Kollivarigudem of Guntupalli panchayati in Kamavarapukota mandal died.

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