MACT awards Rs 50L to kin of men killed in road mishap GGN ADMIN offers to oversee upkeep of underpasses
NEW DELHI: A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded over Rs 50 lakh to the families of three men who were mowed down by a car in New Delhi in 2016.
MACT presiding officer M K Nagpal asked Reliance General Insurance Co. Ltd, insurer of the offending vehicle to pay a total of Rs 53,14,000 as compensation to the families of the deceased.
“The Insurance Company being insurer of the offending car is directed to deposit the award amount with UCO Bank, Patiala House Court Branch, in name of the petitioners within 30 days from today,” the tribunal said.
The compensation was awarded to the families of Kallu, Noor Alam and Wajid, who were killed in an accident on April 15, 2016 on Delhi Cantonment flyover in New Delhi.
According to the complaint filed by the families of the deceased, all the three killed were working on a sugarcane juice cart which was hit from behind by a rash and negligently driven car.
All three were taken to a nearby hospital where Kallu and Noor Alam were declared brought dead, whereas the third injured, Wajid, succumbed to his injuries later.
The court while awarding the compensation took into consideration the fact that all the three were earning members of their families.
However, in the absence of any definite and conclusive proof regarding earnings of the deceased at the relevant time of accident, the tribunal calculated their earnings as per the minimum wages applicable for unskilled workers in Delhi at the time of accident.
The court awarded a compensation of Rs 17,79,000 to the parents of Kallu and a sum of Rs 17,56,000 to the parents of Wajid and Rs 17,79,000 to the parents as well as five siblings of Noor Alam.
The insurance company had claimed that the accused was driving intoxicated, but failed to prove the claim. GURUGRAM: Following the fiasco caused by Tuesday downpour, where most underpasses in Gurugram were inundated with water as deep as 25 feet, the district authorities have started taking corrective.
The public administration has written to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), asking the latter to pass the responsibility of maintenance of underpasses to them. As of now, there has been no reply from NHAI on this issue.
The NHAI, as well as other public agencies, are facing heavy criticism over how the newly-constructed roads, where crores of rupees were poured in, could not handle a few hours of rain and were water-logged. It took more than 30 hours to pump out water from the Hero Honda Chowk underpass, where water had filled to levels of 25 feet following Tuesday’s downpour. Such was the condition that the public officials had to use a boat to survey the situation and then pump out water
Such was the condition that the public officials had to use a boat to survey the situation and then pump out water.
The challenge can be gauged from the fact that in 12 hours, only nine feet of water could be pumped out and throughout Wednesday, the newly-constructed underpass was out of bounds for the commuters.
This is not for the first time when underpasses have been a target of controversies.
For long Rajiv Chowk and Signature Chowk underpasses did not have proper electricity supply from DHBVN and operated on diesel gensets.
Moreover, dim lighting in these underpasses makes it a risky ride for lakhs of commuters not only at night but even in the day. Ten accidents were reported in these underpasses last year, which also resulted in loss of lives. Subsequently, authorities have started taking cognisance and begun correcting the flaws.