Keeping the promise to lend helping hand to the dependants of the victims of road accident that happened at Amritsar-Mehta road recently, Bikram Singh Majithia, Punjab Revenue Minister on Sunday gave away cheques of `25 lakh to the next of the kin of the victims.
Majithia expressed his heartfelt condolences at the ‘Antim Ardas’ held at village Kotli Dholeshah in commemoration of the victims of this dreaded accident.
Sharing the grief of the families of the deceased, Majitha said that although this loss is irreparable but the Government is standing firmly with the families of the deceased in this hour of crisis. He said that the victims of this road accident belong to poor families and they were doing rigorous hard work each day to meet their both ends.
It is pertinent to mention here that in a horrific road accident at Amritsar-Mehta road on the night of December 31 between a Bus and a ‘Garuka’, 11 labourers had died and 13 were injured when they were commuting back to their homes in Garuka.
Majithia said that it is the duty of any welfare government to reach out to the people in the hour of any crisis.
He said that he had personally visited the Guru Ram Dass Charitable Hospital to enquire about the health of the wounded and promised that the Government would provide free medical treatment to the wounded and a `2 lakh compensation each to the dependants of the deceased.