ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways (PR) is yet to finish installment of pay to the casualties of Tezgam Express train mishap that happened on Oct 31 2019. Authorities of the Ministry of Railways educated the National Assembly’s standing board on Monday that the procedure for installment of 16 cheques was being finished.
The council individuals communicated reservations, especially over the report of the national government assessor of railroads on the Tezgam Express train occurrence.
A senior authority of the PR educated the council that 58 cheques to the groups of perished and 34 cheques to the harmed had been appropriated through Postal Life Insurance, while the remainder 16 cheques would be conveyed not long after fruition of due process and investigation.
Railroads Secretary Habibur Rehman Gilani and different authorities of the service said that the last report on the Tezgam Express train episode has been submitted to the board of trustees.
Reacting to inquiries by the board of committee individuals, Secretary Gilani said that there were 77 distinguished deaths in the occurrence; 75 bodies were given over to legitimate heirs and 10 unidentified bodies are still with the PR since their DNAs were not coordinated.
The standing advisory group meeting led by Mohammad Mueen Wattoo supported the budgetary recommendations adding up to Rs30,989 million demanded by the Ministry of Railways and its joined divisions for the progressing ventures under the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) .
To the extent the PSDP ventures for financial year 2020-21 are concerned, the service authorities said that new activities were under investigation by the Planning and Development Division and the Ministry of Finance; in any case, no assignments have so far been shown.
The board of trustees requested that the railroads authorities give a rundown of new undertakings at the earliest.
More than 70 individuals lost their lives in one of the most astonishing train mishaps in the nation’s history when three intruders of moving Tezgam Express, going from Karachi to Rawalpindi, burst into flames close Rahim Yar Khan.
The fire was accepted to have been brought about by the impact of a gas chamber being utilized by certain travelers for preparing nourishment in the moving train. In any case, no last report on the occurrence has so far been made open.
The Islamabad High Court has as of late communicated outrage at the interior and railroads ministries for neglecting to present the inquiry report in the Tezgam mishap case.
A considerable lot of those killed in the occurrence were said to be going to Raiwind for the tableeghi gathering.
Railroads Minister Sheikh Rasheed had told the media after the occurrence that two of the train coaches that burst into flames were reserved under the name of an ameer of the tableeghi jamaat.
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