District Collector Nitin Bhanudas Jawale will provide a sum of Rs 10 lakh as financial assistance to deceased Pitambar Rout’s kin of Rajagada village under Mahakalpada block.
Rout (52), who was the Executive Officer of Dhumat Gram Panchayat under Kendrapada block, had died in a mishap while he was engaged in poll duty as a second polling officer at booth number — 24 of Safalanga UP School.
Rout had gone with his assigned polling party to the booth in a truck on April 15 midnight. But as ill luck would have it, he fell down from the vehicle sustaining critical head injuries. He was rushed to the Rajkanika CHC for treatment, but he succumbed to his injuries there.