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| Railways to compensate 7/11 victims |
| A second medical board has also been formed to speed up the medical reports for submission to the tribunal.
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| INDIA
, 24-September-2007
0:58:43 AM |
| The Railways has taken steps for swift monetary compensation to the victims of terror attacks in Mumbai's suburban trains in July last year, railway ministry officials said.
About the delay in settling the claims in the serial blasts case, the officials said it was largely due to procedural complexities coupled with one-year waiting period for filing claims.
Of a total of 1,060 victims in the blasts on July 11, 2006, 187 persons died, 555 were grievously injured and 318 suffered minor injuries.
The Railway Minister had announced an ex-gratia of rupees 5 lakh for death cases, rupees 50,000 in grievous injuries and rupees10,000 for minor injury cases. The ministry paid ex-gratia in
1,045 cases and only 15 cases are pending because of incorrect addresses.
However, since there is a provision for one-year time limit for filing claims in tribunals, 735 blast-related cases were filed till July 10 this year. So far, 250 cases have been disposed of.
''However, we have taken certain steps to dispose of the rest of the cases. As against one week sitting in a month by the tribunal, it has been doubled to two weeks,'' said the officials.
A second medical board has also been formed to speed up the medical reports for submission to the tribunal. However, no definite time frame can be set for finalisation of the pending cases, they added.
Procedural delay coupled with the one-year waiting period for filing claims in accidents and untoward incidents involving the railways has resulted in piling up of backlog of 19,394 cases with the railway claim tribunals across the country.
There are 485 cases alone in Mumbai train blasts, awaiting hearing in the tribunal.
''Prior to setting up of the Railway Claims Tribunal, cases were decided by district courts and ad hoc claims commissioners. However, the proceedings were time-consuming and that is why the Ministry of Railways constituted tribunals for speedy disposal of cases,'' said a senior ministry official.
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