March 26, 2014


Railways to pay compensation to victims of Sambalpur train accident

    The Indian Railways have decided to pay compensation to all the victims of the train accident that took place in August 2012 at an un-manned level crossing near Sambalpur.

In pursuant to an High Court order passed in November 2012, the Railways have decided to pay damage to the next of keen of the deceased and to the injured in the accident.
In a letter to the Human Rights activist and lawyer Prabir Kumar Das, a divisional engineer of East Coast Railways has informed that an amount of Rs. 77,44,569 has been sanctioned as compensation.
The Railways have also requested Das to cooperate in identifying the victims for distribution of compensation amount.
It may be mentioned here that the train mishap took place when an Express train hit an auto-rickshaw in which the victims were crossing the railway tracks at an un-manned level crossing at Khairapally near Sambalpur.
All the victims were farm labourers and were socially and economically disabled. While 13 of the 14 deceased were women, their family members independently could not fight with the Railways to seek damage and therefore a PIL was filed in the High Court by Das.
Compensation
Deciding the case, the High Court had directed the Railways to pay compensation at the rate of Rs. 5 lakh to each of the families of the 14 deceased.
The Railways were also asked to compensate other injured persons by paying damage ranging between Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 25,000 as per the gravity of the injuries from the date of filing of the PIL with six per cent interest per annum.

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