The state government informed the state assembly on Monday that 1150 people from the state were missing in the Uttarakhand disaster that struck the hill state on June 16 last year.
The government, however, admitted said that the compensation amount of Rs 5.50 lakh to be provided to to 948 families, whose death certificates have been sent by Uttarakhand government is yet to be made so far. Replying to a question of BJP member Suresh Kumar Khanna in the state assembly, state Parliamentary Affairs minister Md Azam Khan said efforts were on to distribute the ex-gratia payment to the deceased family.
While Rs 2 lakh each per person was given from the PMO and UP CM, Rs 1.50 lakh is provided by the Uttarakhand government. ’We have received Rs 37 crores from the Centre to distribute the ex-gratia payment but the process is yet to be started,’’ he stated. Meanwhile, in another question, the state government announced that the one member judicial committee probing into the stampede at the Allahabad railway station in February 2013 during the Kumbh Mela would give its report to the government by July end.
Khan replying to the question of Congress member Anugurah Narain Singh said that the one member judicial commission headed by retired Justice Omkeshwar Bhatt has completed his investigation and was drafting his report. ‘’The report is likely to be submitted to the government by the end of next month,’’ he stated.
More than 30 people mostly women were crushed to death in a stampede at the Allahabad railway station on the Mauni Amavasya bathing day during the Kumbh Mela on February 10,2013.