New Delhi, March 6 Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday announced that the government will be holding a two-day verification drive, staring from Saturday, to release monetary compensation for violence-affected families of north-east Delhi.
"The Delhi government has decided to launch a two-day verification drive for the release of compensation to victims of violence in the North East region of Delhi. We have received 1,700 compensation up till now," Sisodia told the media here.
He said the restoration and rehabilitation work is going on at a very fast pace in the violence-affected areas.
"SDMs have been deployed to different parts of the violence-hit region. Compensation forms are being given out to the grieving families and on the basis of these forms the process of providing monetary compensation to the affected families has started."
The Deputy chief minister said the government has already given out Rs 25,000 as an immediate cash relief to the affected people.
He also informed that senior IAS officers will be heading the verification drive.
"Six senior IAS officers will be heading this two- day verification drive which starts tomorrow. We want to get done with the verification process at the earliest so that we can release the full compensation amount to the affected families as soon as possible," said Sisodia.
He said the government is facing the issue of duplication with a few of the forms received, hence the verification drive will be an important exercise.
"Our effort is to give full monetary relief to the people as soon as possible, so that they can get their lives back on track," he added.
Sisodia also said that each floor of a house will be treated as one residential unit.
"Rs 5 lakh as relief money will be given to each residential unit out of which Rs 4 lakh is for restructuring of the house and Rs 1 lakh for belongings, if the entire house is charred or burnt. In case of substantial damage to the house, 2.5 lakh rupees will be provided- out of which Rs 2 lakh is for restructuring of the house while Rs 50,000 is for belongings, if belongings have been damaged too," he said
Monetary relief of Rs 5 lakh will be provided to schools as well (with less than 1,000 students) if they suffered damage during the riots.
"Schools with more than 1,000 students will be given a cash relief of Rs 10 lakh," he said.
( With inputs from IANS )