Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 17: The Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has delegated powers to the Secretary (Technical), Power Development Department (PDD), for sanctioning ex-gratia relief in favour of employees, other persons or their heirs or owners of domestic animals who get electrocuted and die or got rendered fully or partially disabled after electrocution.
An order in this regard stated that in case of death of a human being, ex-gratia of Rs. 10 lakh should be given while in case of total disability it would be Rs. 7.50 lakh and in case of partial disability the amount will be Rs. 2 lakh.
The ex-gratia will be meant for all the employees of PDD, whether regular, DRW/Casual labour, Work Charged, Contingent paid etc, engaged in the generation, transmission or supply of electrical energy in the department, who are killed, incapacitated, wholly or partially, during the course of discharging their bonafide and legitimate duties.
Others entitled for the relief include civilians, killed or injured resulting in their partial or total disability, subject to the explicit condition that the accident is not attributable to them but to the lapses, attributable to the PDD, as verified by the Director, TTI & C.
The order also stated that in case of death of any employee, the ex-gratia relief shall be paid to the legal heirs of the deceased and the payment shall be subject to the condition that the relief, granted by the Government under the Workman’s Compensation Act, shall be adjusted while making payment of the ex-gratia relief.
Apart from this the order stated that relief to the tune of Rs. 20,000 shall also be given in case a cow, bull or horse dies of electrocution while for sheep/goat this amount will be Rs. 5000.
For this Director, TTI&C shall verify if the domestic animal got killed by electrocution caused due to lapses attributable to the department.
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