Chandigarh, February 19

The governing administration has accepted particular provisions in the policies to offer government employment to a person of the family members of every single of the 4 minors killed in the Maur Mandi bomb blast on January 31, 2017.

The decision was taken now by the Council of Ministers at a conference chaired by CM Capt Amarinder Singh.

It was made the decision to grant exclusive provision to provide careers on compassionate grounds as for each the educational qualifications of one member each individual of the households of the deceased — Japsimaran Singh (15), Sourav Singla (14), Ankush (11), and Ripandeep Singh (9).

The existing principles do not give for employment in state support on compassionate grounds for small deceased. With the Cabinet decision nowadays, the relevant guidelines/procedures have been calm to supply jobs to a member every as for each their academic qualification in Bathinda district or adjoining districts versus immediate quota vacant posts as a exclusive circumstance (without treating it as a precedent).

The work opportunities provided by the condition authorities are in addition to the monetary grant of Rs 5 lakh each and every to the family members of every of the deceased. The injured been given Rs 50,000 every from the CM’s reduction fund.

It might be recalled that 7 persons were killed and 13 injured in the bomb blast at Maur Mandi in Bathinda. The governing administration experienced earlier offered governing administration positions to the next of kin of two deceased — Harpal Singh (40) and Ashok Kumar (35) — as per the existing policy, considering that both were the breadwinners of their families.

In Ashok Kumar’s case, his small daughter Bago (11) was also killed, but considering the fact that one particular member of the family members has presently been provided a work, Bago has not been involved in the unique provision approved nowadays. — TNS