The State Government has paid a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to Hema Kadraka, mother of a student, Nandini, who died of electrocution on July 11, 2019.
The National Human Rights commission (NHRC), acting on a petition filed by rights activist Radhakanta Tripathy, had asked the State Chief Secretary to provide the compensation to the parents of the student. Nandini Kadraka, a student of the Kasturba Residential School at Kumudapali in Rayagada district, had been electrocuted when her head came in contact with a low-lying live electric wire at around 11.15pm while she was going towards a bathroom of the hostel.