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Sorry States: Bihar and West Bengal Insult Martyrs With Meager Compensation. Even Illegal Encroachers Get The Same Money
Swarajya Staff
Sep 21, 2016, 02:08 PM | Updated 02:08 PM IST
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State governments are under fire for offering meager financial aid to families of soldiers martyred in the recent attack on army camp in Uri.
To
begin with, the West Bengal government offered a meager amount of Rs. 2
lakh as compensation. No one from the ruling establishment turned up to
attend the funeral. Mamata Banerjee, who heads the government, would
have spent much more than that amount to attend Mother Teresa’s
canonisation ceremony in the Vatican City. Is the well-being of a
martyr’s family not as important?
The
government in Bihar offered a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh. Rejecting the
offer, a martyr’s wife said, “Was my husband a drunkard who lost his
life falling in a drain? I don’t need Nitish Kumar’s financial
assistance.” Why can’t Nitish
Kumar, who allocated a whopping 500 crore for the construction of a
museum in Patna, offer respectable compensation to the martyr’s family?
The
Assam government offered the same amount as compensation for those who
died in police action during the eviction of illegal (suspected to be
Bangladeshi) encroachers at Kaziranga National Park.
So
you have a situation where the families of those who die for the
country and the families of possible illegal immigrants and encroachers
receive the same compensation.
Thankfully, at-least the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Jharkhand offered a compensation of Rs. 20 lakh, Rs. 15 lakh and Rs. 10 lakh respectively.
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