Hooch tragedy: Bihar govt proclaims to produce Rs 4 lakh as compensation to victims

Express News Service

PATNA: Bihar authorities, on Monday, launched to produce compensation to the Hooch tragedy victims in Bihar’s East Champaran district.

Talking to media people on sidelines of his weekly ‘janata ke darbaar mein mukhya mantri’, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar talked about that dependents of each sufferer of hooch tragedies inside the state shall be supplied Rs 4 lakh as compensation from the CM help fund.

He talked about that letters have been being despatched to all district magistrates informing them regarding the authorities’s decision on compensation. “The compensation will be given to the affected families after collecting all information about the victims,” he added.

The enchancment obtained right here after the precept Opposition get collectively BJP demanded an all-party meeting on the model new prohibition protection to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol in Bihar in April 2016. The DMs of respective districts will ship the itemizing after verification of associated paperwork from their end.

Senior BJP chief and Rajya Sabha member Sushil Modi claimed that over 300 of us have died in hooch tragedies and others misplaced their imaginative and prescient as a consequence of consumption of alleged spurious liquor given that state was declared ‘dry’.

ALSO READ | In ‘dry’ Bihar, one different hooch tragedy claims 20 lives

Former chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha patron Jitan Ram Manjhi had moreover talked about that nearly the entire victims belonged to poor strata of society.

“The poor were the worst suffers from new prohibition policy,” he had instructed the media.

At least 30 people are suspected to have died after consuming spurious liquor since Friday. The district administration, nonetheless, put the figures at 14 solely.

ALSO READ | Slugfest resurfaces in Bihar over hooch tragedy as dying toll rises to twenty-eight

The nationwide human rights payment, earlier,  had slammed the state authorities for hiding particulars regarding the dying of hooch victims inside the Saran district in December last 12 months. More than 43 of us, as per official info, died.

PATNA: Bihar authorities, on Monday, launched to produce compensation to the Hooch tragedy victims in Bihar’s East Champaran district.

Talking to media people on sidelines of his weekly ‘janata ke darbaar mein mukhya mantri’, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar talked about that dependents of each sufferer of hooch tragedies inside the state shall be supplied Rs 4 lakh as compensation from the CM help fund.

He talked about that letters have been being despatched to all district magistrates informing them regarding the authorities’s decision on compensation. “The compensation will be given to the affected families after collecting all information about the victims,” he added.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The enchancment obtained right here after the precept Opposition get collectively BJP demanded an all-party meeting on the model new prohibition protection to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol in Bihar in April 2016. The DMs of respective districts will ship the itemizing after verification of associated paperwork from their end.

Senior BJP chief and Rajya Sabha member Sushil Modi claimed that over 300 of us have died in hooch tragedies and others misplaced their imaginative and prescient as a consequence of consumption of alleged spurious liquor given that state was declared ‘dry’.

ALSO READ | In ‘dry’ Bihar, one different hooch tragedy claims 20 lives

Former chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha patron Jitan Ram Manjhi had moreover talked about that nearly the entire victims belonged to poor strata of society.

“The poor were the worst suffers from new prohibition policy,” he had instructed the media.

At least 30 people are suspected to have died after consuming spurious liquor since Friday. The district administration, nonetheless, put the figures at 14 solely.

ALSO READ | Slugfest resurfaces in Bihar over hooch tragedy as dying toll rises to twenty-eight

The nationwide human rights payment, earlier,  had slammed the state authorities for hiding particulars regarding the dying of hooch victims inside the Saran district in December last 12 months. More than 43 of us, as per official info, died.