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Shillong: An amount of Rs 96,72,640 was paid as compensation for electrocution victims in Meghalaya during the last 10 years.
This was stated in the reply of the Power Minister Abu Taher Mondal to a starred question tabled in the Assembly today.
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Highlighting the process of obtaining compensation for electrocution victims, the reply of the minister said that on receipt of information of electrical accident, the concerned assistant executive engineer would visit the spot of accident and undertake the inspection where the electrical accident had occurred and would submit the detailed report of electrical accident in the prescribed format to the senior electrical inspector and lodge an FIR to the nearest police station and intimate it to the deputy commissioner and superintendent of police of the district including his senior officers.
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The senior electrical inspector would conduct an inquiry for ascertaining the cause of the electrical accident and will prepare the inquiry report and submit the same to the Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited along with the recommendations.
The amount of compensation paid is in line with notification issued by the Power department.
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