From Covid crematoriums to Rashtrapati Bhavan, Jitender Singh Shunty's years of service have finally fetched him a national honour.
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00:13Shri Jitendra Singh Shanti, Samaj Seva
00:30Music
00:47We bring the body to the hospital and take it to the cremation ground.
00:51If someone has to keep the body for a couple of days,
00:54we give the body to the mortuary box free of cost.
00:57All the work is done free of cost.
01:09And then the body dies.
01:10And the body is left alone.
01:12The body is taken care of by a caretaker or a servant.
01:15His family is in London, Muscat, America, Toronto.
01:21I get a call from there.
01:23My mother and brother's body is lying there.
01:25Please get it cremated.
01:27There were people who were poor.
01:29They said, Shanti ji, we don't have any money.
01:31I used to say, get the body, I'll pay for it.
01:33I'll pay for all the expenses.
01:35Some bodies have been found without a heir.
01:37On the road, outside a house, at a bus stop.
01:42People have died of Corona.
01:45And some people have left the body outside the cremation ground.
01:48They haven't come back.
01:55My mother still picks up the body.
01:57She picks up a Hindu's body.
02:02It takes time to pack.
02:05To fill the form.
02:06And I feel thirsty.
02:08I can't open the door.
02:10I have gloves, a gown, a boot cover under my feet.
02:21I have tried everything, but if I don't survive, I can't do anything.
02:24I haven't gone home for a day.
02:25There's a parking, I'll go there, eat and sleep in the car.
02:40For the first time, old people were dying of Corona.
02:53Today, young people are dying.