Bhopal, July 28 -- Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Monday started a new state-wide initiative aiming to provide free hearse van services for the poor and resource-less individuals to carry bodies from government hospitals to their homes.

Yadav flagged off the hearse vehicles from CM house in Bhopal and highlighted that a total of 148 hearse vehicles will be provided across the state with each district hospital having two hearse vans and the region wherever there are medical colleges, two additional hearse vehicles would be provided.

"We have implemented many types of public friendly schemes, public welfare and sensitive schemes. Today, we are implementing one such sensitive scheme. As we know there is an ambulance facility ...