Kin gets Rs.10 lakh ex gratia each
The state government has finally given Rs 10 lakh ex gratia to the relatives of each dead family who lost their life cleaning the sewage-filled stormwater drain (SWD) in BN reddy, only days after the deaths of workers Butla shiva and Navalli Anantaiah. Aside from that, contractor B. Yellaiah has promised Rs 5 lakh financial help to each family of the deceased. The city mayor, Gadwal R Vijaylakshmi, and trs mla D Sudheer reddy presented the relatives of the dead with checks totalling Rs 15 lakh.
Later in the day, the mayor visited the recovery efforts and told the authorities that Anantaiah's body had yet to be recovered. Authorities checked a 9-kilometre stormwater channel with 250 manholes, she added.
Earlier in the day, tpcc head A. revanth reddy chastised the government for failing to offer ex gratia to the deceased's relatives.