Saturday 27 August 2016

Modi stumps Pak again- Govt announces enhanced compensation for terror victims, PoK residents can apply too

Modi stumps Pak again- Govt announces enhanced compensation for terror victims, PoK residents can apply too
The Centre today announced enhanced compensation for civilian victims of terror and said that Pakistan Occupied Kashmiris could apply too.
Kamaljit Kaur Sandhu  by Yashaswani Sehrawat
New Delhi, August 24, 2016 |
                                                                                      
BRIEFCASE
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Centre announces enhanced compensation for terror victims.
·         Say Pakistan Occupied Kashmiris could claim too.
·         Compensation increased from Rs 3 lakhs to Rs 5 lakhs.
The Modi government has announced enhanced compensation for civilian victims of terror and have said that Pakistan Occupied Kashmiris, who are also our people, can claim this compensation too.
This comes days after Narendra Modi raised the issue of Balochistan, Gilgit and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir in his Independence Day speech.
ANOTHER BOLD MOVE
Minister of state for PMO, Jitendra Singh, announced compensation for civilian victims and said "Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmiris are an important part of India and they can also claim such a compensation."

He said, "By the virtue of the Constitution of India, rules also apply in that part of the country which is occupied by Pakistan. Those residents are also our people and are victims of similar condition."

The statement comes after Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Modi, gave its approval to enhance the grant of compensation to the civilian victims under the scheme titled "Central Scheme for Assistance to Civilian Victims of Terrorist/ Communal/Left Wing Extremist (LWE), Cross Border Firing and Mine/IED blasts on Indian Territory".

The compensation had been increased from Rs 3 lakhs to Rs 5 lakhs.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SCHEME
1.    For the first time, civilian victims of cross border firing along the Indo-Pak border will be given a compensation of Rs 5 lakh similar to those who die due to terrorism or LWE violence.
2.    The decision to give compensation to the victims of cross border firing and enhancing the amount was taken by the government today.

3.    From now on, any civilian who dies anywhere in the country due to terror attack, LWE violence, firing from across the border, shelling or IED explosion will be given Rs5 lakh as compensation uniformly.

4.    The amount will be given to the next of kin of the victim.
5.    Rs 5 lakh will also be given to those who receive 50 per cent or more disability or incapacitation due to the same reasons.

6.    The compensation amount will be given subject to the condition that no employment has been provided to any of the family members of the victims by state or Central Government.
7.    So far, the government has disbursed Rs 35.89 crore as compensation to civilian victims since the inception of this scheme first came in 2008.

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