Federal Agro Meat Plant Incident: Compensation disbursed to the families of the victims 

IEP SAS Nagar/Derabassi, May 04

 Chairman of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis Mr. M. Venkatesan arrived at Derabassi to meet the families of the workers who died while cleaning the tank of Federal Agro Meat Plant, village Behra and the family of the worker who died while cleaning the sewer line at village Jolan and also visited the Federal Agro Meat Plant. Deputy Commissioner Mrs. Aashika Jain and SSP Sandeep Kumar Garg were also present. The family of Manak Singh who died at the Federal Agro Meat Plant, village Behra and the victim’s family of village Jolan incident arrived at SDM office to meet Mr. Venkatesan. The families were given Rs.02 lakh each from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.  Along with this, Mr. Venkatesan instructed the officials to give due compensation to the families as per the instructions issued by the government and the Hon’ble Supreme Court. Along with this M.S. Act, E.S.I. And whatever amount is due regarding P.F.,  should be given to the families. Apart from this, it should be ensured that the maximum amount of compensation should be given to the victims’ families by the Federal Agro Meat Plant. This amount should be given in the form of FD to the family members so that there would be no scope for any dispute. Mr. Venkatesan also visited the Federal Agro Meat Plant. It is worth mentioning here that when the chairman visited the plant, no responsible person from the plant was present there to answer his questions. On this occasion, Deputy Commissioner Mrs. Aashika Jain assured the Chairman of the National Commission that the compliance of the issued instructions will be ensured. Additional Deputy Commissioner (Urban Development) Damanjit Singh Mann, ASP Darpan Ahluwalia, SDM Derabsi  Himanshu Gupta, District Heads of various departments and Administrative Officers were also present.

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