Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 31: Seeking immediate release of adequate ex-gratia to the NOKs of deceased as well as those injured in tragic matador accident that occurred in Ramkot on July 2 , 2017, NPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh today called upon the Divisional Commissioner Jammu and sought a judicial enquiry into the tragic accident that left 4 dead and around 33 passengers injured.
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After brief protest, the victims led by Harsh Dev also submitted a memorandum to Divisional Commissioner, Dr Mandeep Bhandari for the State Governor. In a memorandum to the Governor through the Dr Bhandari, Singh lamented that not only were the injured denied proper treatment in the hospital but several of them had been discharged despite their pathetic plight and left at the mercy of the Almighty. Besides not a single penny had been released as ex-gratia to the injured in-spite of the grievous injuries received by them with some of them having been permanently incapacitated and physically disabled, Harsh Dev maintained.
Seeking the intervention of the Governor, Harsh Dev said that with a defunct Road Safety Council and un-implemented road safety policy and Road Safety Fund, the tall slogans of the Govt had proved mere hyperboles. He said that even the PM’s slogans of cashless treatment to road accident victims and 15 minutes “ response time” for shifting the inured to nearest empanelled hospitals had nowhere been translated to reality. He regretted that accident victims in GMC Hospital Jammu were being asked to procure medicines from the market and ambulances charges were also extorted from helpless victims.
He castigated the Red Cross Society for its failure to provide any kind of assistance to victims. Singh further called upon the Additional Divisional Commissioner to pay a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the two young ladies who were killed in landslide in Ramnagar last week.
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