By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
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Patna: Bihar cabinet has decided to give monthly pension of Rs2500 to the family members of those killed or went missing in 1989-90 Bhagalpur riots.
A meeting of state’s cabinet held on Tuesday in which Justice NN Singh submitted his interim report of Bhagalpur riot. The report contains a recommendation to give pension to the victim’s family which got nod of approval by the state Government in this meeting.
Bhagalpur riot enquiry commission led by Justice NN Singh has recommended only one thing to the state Government in para no 20 which says that the state Government to demand the Central Government to give compensation and special package to the Bhagalpur riot victims, equivalent to the packages which were given to the victims of anti Sikh violence of 1984.
The Central Government has to take actions on rest of the recommendations of the report except pension therefore the state Government gave its approval to the recommendation of pension to the caretakers of riot victims and decided to give them pension from 1st September 2007.
A pension will be given monthly Rs2500 each. A total of rupees 1 crore 27 lakh 95 thousand will be spend on pensions in 6 months in the financial year 2007-08 whereas 2 crore 50 lakh will be spend annually.
Justice NN Singh Commission was formed for the enquiry of Bhagalpur riots on 26 February 2006 by a notification of Home Ministry. The Commission has admitted in its report that Bhagalpur communal riots were the worse which continued for a very long period. It was started from 24 October 1989 and continued up to December 1989. Again it sparked in March 1990 in which nearly 1000 people were killed, a lot of people wounded, thousand of homes and shops were set a fire or demolished. Almost 50,000 thousand people were affected in this violence. This was spread in 250 villages of 15 blocks of Bhagalpur districts.