State Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand on Sunday announced that the State government would provide compassionate appointment to a member each of the families of the martyred members of the polling team who w ere killed in the landmine attack in Bijapur district of Bastar on Saturday.
On returning from Jagdalpur, Dhand told mediapersons here that each family of the martyred polling team members would be given assistance of Rs 32 lakh. Of this, the Election Commission will give Rs 20 lakh each and the remaining Rs 12 lakh each would be given by the State government.The Election Commission will provide Rs 20 lakh each and the State government Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the martyred driver and technician of the Sanjeevani Express, he said.
Moreover, as per the rules of the CRPF, the family of each martyred CRPF personnel would get about Rs 40 lakh each, Dhand said.
The Maoists on Saturday had attacked the polling party near Kutru-Kotulnar in Bijapur district of Bastar division, in which seven employees were martyred. In the second landmine blast that followed soon after, near Darbha in Jagdalpur district, insurgents blew up a Sanjeevani Express ambulance of the State government in which the CRPF men were travelling. Five CRPF personnel, and the driver and the technician of the ambulance were killed in the attack.
Dhand, accompanied by State Chief Electoral Officer Sunil Kujur, Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, NK Aswal, and Director-General of Police AN Upadhyay, on Sunday had reached the Bastar divisional headquarters at Jagdalpur in a helicopter and gathered information from senior officers about Saturday’s Naxal attacks in Bastar region.
Expressing deep grief over the incidents, Chief Minister Raman Singh on Saturday evening had called an emergency meeting of senior officers of the State government at Raipur and had reviewed the situation.He had instructed the officers to provide every possible help to the families of the martyred polling officials and CRPF personnel and others.
The Chief Minister had also instructed the officers to arrange for the proper medical treatment of the injured in these incidents. Several employees and troopers were injured in the two incidents.