By TCN News,
New Delhi: Emirates India Fraternity Forum has come out to help the families of Mangalore air crash victims. EIFF will work that the families get benefits from the companies in Dubai and other parts of Emirates where the deceased were working.
“We will contact the Indian Consulate and get the victims details; their company details home address and relative contact nos. We will set up helpline to assist the families of the deceased – legal work like cancellation of visa, benefits from the company they working, and will help them to get compensation from Center and State, to look after their liabilities, all legal procedures,” said Muhammad Afaque Nagoor of EIFF in a statement.
“We will assist them in India and keep in touch with them to get the monitory benefits. We also had talk with Popular Front of India leaders to do all legal work and assist them in all possible ways,” he further said.
“We want to be part of this pain and agony the deceased families going through. We make special prayer for the deceased. We will assure and see to that no family will be left over unattended,” he assured.
In order to help the relatives of the Air India flight crash –victims, two special wings of EIFF are working in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Soon after the crash of Air India Express flight from Dubai in Mangalore of Karnataka on May 22, EIFF members came into action to help the relatives of the victims.
“Soon after hearing the tragic incident EIFF pulled out the passenger list from the press release and called up emergency meeting of its council member and started calling the deceased families with passenger contact details.
With limited time and resource EIFF contacted more than 80 families UAE contacts and home contact no. It was very surprising to see lot of victims details are of traveling agencies. However with limited available contact details we have guided the relatives of possible immediate flight to reach Mangalore to attend the funeral of their beloved once. It was very tragic stories of passengers. Some have lost wife and children some have lost whole family, some have lost their only bread earner and story goes on…
By 3 pm we have sent 2 members of EIFF to Terminal 1 to guide them for the next flight also we have sent 2 members to Air India Office at Diera. We were able to get 5 tickets of the relative and later Air India Office said they do not have any more seats,” Nagoor said.