By Khabrein.info Correspondent,
New Delhi, May 22: Union government taking a significant step towards providing adequate compensation to Gujarat riot victims has announced Rs 330 crore package for people who were affected by one of the worst riots in Indian history.
Around 2000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced during the ghostly riots that engulfed Gujarat in 2002. A number of people are still to return to the places where they lived prior to the riots.
A cabinet meeting headed by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh Thursday gave its approval for grant of relief and rehabilitation to the victims of communal riots in Gujarat of 2002. The victims, whose residential property had been damaged, would get an additional ex-gratia of 10 times the amount given by the State Government less the amount already paid by the State Government.
Union government also gave its approval for grant of additional ex-gratia for damage to uninsured commercial/ industrial property. It would get additional ex-gratia of 10 times the amount given by the State Government less the amount already paid.
The decision for payment of additional ex-gratia to the victims of the communal riots in Gujarat of 2002 for damage to residential property and uninsured commercial / industrial property will keep them at par with the measures taken in respect of victims of anti-Sikh riots of 1984.
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