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AN-32 victims kin to get Rs.35 lakh each as compensation

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Thursday, September 7, 2017
Visakhapatnam

The eight civilian defence employees who had had died in the AN-32 aircraft crash on July 22, 2016, the kin of the victims will get Rs.35 lakh each as ex-gratia.

The then Defence Minister Arun Jaitley in a letter to the MP K.Haribabu said payment of extraordinary pension as per the provisions of the Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) had also been approved and orders have been issued.

The MP had appealed the Defence Minister sought grant of legal heirs special benefits to the then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in December 2016 and later to Jaitley in July 2017. Jaitely said that pension payment orders in respect of eight had been issued and family pension, gratuity, arrears of family pension and leave encashment due on account of the Central Government Employees General Insurance Scheme and Seventh Pay Commission had been paid.