Succumbing to the demand of compensation raised by the family members of the labourers, who died in an accident at Adani Wilmar Soya plant on Thursday, the company management has agreed to pay a compensation of Rs 15 lakh to the kin of each deceased. In the aftermath of the death, the factory management had announced a compensation of Rs 50,000 each for the deceased which had infuriated the villagers and they had beaten up tehsildar Gopal Soni at the district hospital and later protested with the bodies of the victims without allowing the authorities for taking the bodies for post-mortem.
They were demanding a compensation of Rs 15 lakh each and had claimed that until their compensation demands are not met they would protest with the bodies and would not perform the last rites. On Friday Neemuch SDM Jagdish Mehra said that the factory management has provided Rs 50,000 cash and cheque of Rs 14.5 lakh to the family of the deceased. AK Singh of the factory management provided the compensation to the families.
After the compensation was provided to the families the villagers the bodies were sent for the post mortem. Janpad Panchyat President Jagdish Gurjar said that the prompt compensation from the factory management occurred only due to the reaction and keen interest of media in the issue which helped the families of deceased in receiving adequate and timely compensation. He thanked media the response and support. MlA Dileep Singh Parihar said that the Home Minister Babulal Gaur’s visit to the families of the deceased was postponed due to some emergency work and he would probably visit Neemuch on Saturday.Notably three labours and two security guards died during cleaning work of a tank at Adani Wilmar Soya plant in Neemuch.