Steel, Mines and labour Minister Prafulla Kumar Mallik on Wednesday reached Chennai and took stock of rescue operations at the collapsed building site.
Mallick held discussions with top officials of Tamil Nadu for the purpose and lauded rescue standards adopted there. The Minister said Rs 5 lakh each would be given to the next of the kin of the Odisha labourers died in the building collapse. According to official figures, five persons from the State died in the mishap while three were injured.
Meanwhile, the Indian Red Cross Society, the Odisha State Branch (IRCS-OSB) with the help of IRCS-Tamil Nadu State Branch brought the bodies of three labourers of Kendrapada district who died due to collapse of an under-construction 12-storey building at Molibhakam in Chennai and handed over these bodies to their family members in Kendrapada district on Tuesday.
The deceased were identified as Amar Kumar Rout(26) of Rajpur village under Rajnagar block, Soumya Ranjan Bauri(18) and Niranjan Kar(35) of Baradanga village under Mahakalapara block of Kendrapada district.
The Kendrapada district administration provided Rs 2,000 to each deceased person’s family to conduct funeral rites. Besides, the District Red Cross Branch, Kendrapada will provide Rs 10,000 to the legal heirs of each deceased as financial assistance out of the District Red Cross Branch fund, informed IRCS-OSB honorary secretary Dr Chakradhar Panda here on Wednesday.