Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, December 28-
The Haryana Cabinet approved the revision of the Ex-Gratia amount to be given to the families of battle casualties of Union Armed Forces personnel and CAPF personnel. The revised Ex-Gratia amount has been increased from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1 Crore.
The Ex-Gratia grant is given to the family members/Next-of-Kin of Martyr of Union Armed Forces personnel (Army, Navy & Air Force) belonging to Haryana, in case of the 'battle casualty including various kinds of incidents declared as 'Battle casualty' by the Defence Authorities/Ministry of Home Affairs, as the case may be, irrespective of any operation or any specified areas of operation in which a member of Armed Forces or Central Armed Police Force is killed in harness, in the performance of bonafide official duties in war/IED Blast/terrorist or militant attacks/border skirmishes and in United National Peacekeeping Force including death in M.T. accident, Cardiac arrest, Air crash accident and Natural calamities which demand exceptional courage and decisions towards performance of duties.
Govt has approved a proposal by the Development and Panchayats Department to allocate a 200-square-yard plot from shamilat deh land to Smt. Kamlesh Sharma, wife of Shaheed Sub-Inspector Sh. Jai Bhagwan.