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Cremation, where ghee along with sandalwood were some of the prerequisites for the last rites, have now shed their emotional quotient with the demand of the times. The use of inflammable like diesel and petrol in place of the traditional ghee is a grim reminder of the situation at the city’s crematoriums.
“I know that this is disrespectful but what shall we do? The pyre contains green wood and will not burn at all if we don’t use any inflammable. I brought diesel from a friend so that the pyre burns properly,” said Arjun Patel, a resident of Udhna, sprinkling some liquid he brought in a plastic container. His relatives had built the pyre at the open ground adjoining to Ramnath Ghela Crematorium (RGC).
“The wood has not dried completely and does not catch fire without the use of some inflammable,” he added.
More so, RGC has itself arranged kerosene containers to be used in wooden pyre for speedy cremations.
Cremation, where ghee along with sandalwood were some of the prerequisites for the last rites, have now shed their emotional quotient with the demand of the times. The use of inflammables like diesel and petrol in place of the traditional ghee is a grim reminder of the situation at the city’s crematoriums.
“Due to high numbers it is difficult to cremate all bodies in a gas furnace in time. To avoid the delay the families have started cremation on wooden pyre but dry wood supply is also limited. Hence, we have arranged kerosene to burn the pyre properly,” said an official at RGC.
At night, Sandip Jhagade arrived with a couple of bottles of petrol to help his friends cremate their relative. “It is the third cremation for which I came here in two days. The wood is green and will not burn properly if we don’t use inflammable,” said Jhagade, dispassionately dousing the pyre with petrol.
At other crematoriums in the city too, dry wood soon ran out of stock in a week and are now getting more wooden lobs to complete the cremations quickly. After local authorities mounted pressure on crematoriums to clear the waiting, crematoriums are setting up additional infrastructure to clear backlog.
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