The Arvind Kejriwal Government on Wednesday said that it would provide compensation to the tune of Rs1 crore to kin of uniformed services personnel killed on active duty. “We gave compensation of Rs1 crore during our last term but now we have made it a policy after the Cabinet meeting. Financial help is not to support livelihood of martyr family but to pay homage to his courage and sacrifice,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.
The Arvind Kejriwal Government is also going to create a separate fund for this purpose and provision is being made in the Budget 2015-16. According to Senior Government officials, Delhi Police personnel, city residents deployed in armed forces, Defence personnel from other States working in Delhi and home guard/ civic defence staffers on dangerous duty will be entitled to this financial assistance if they are killed on active duty. “We will create a separate fund for this and provision will be made in the Budget,” Sisodia said.
Besides the financial assistance, the Arvind Kejriwal Government will also provide a Government job to a kin and kith of martyrs. “The Delhi Government will ensure that family of martyr sacrificing life in the line of duty in other States also get job in Delhi,” Sisodia said. In February, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had announced a sum of Rs1 crore as compensation to the family of a martyred CRPF officer, Narottam Das, a Delhi resident, who died in a landmine blast in Bihar.
Similarly, during AAP’s last term, it had announced similar compensation to the family of Constable Vinod Kumar who was beaten to death allegedly by bootleggers in Ghitorni village of south Delhi during a raid on December 27, 2013. The 48-year-old constable was on deputation with the Excise Department of the Delhi Government.