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AN 32 tragedy: Union to take up with Ministry
The NAD Civil Employees Union, affiliated to All India Defence Federation, has decided to demand the Defence Ministry to pay compensation to the civil employees on board the ill-fated AN 32 on par with the air force personnel.Â
​Visakhapatnam: The NAD Civil Employees Union, affiliated to All India Defence Federation, has decided to demand the Defence Ministry to pay compensation to the civil employees on board the ill-fated AN 32 on par with the air force personnel.
The Union will take the help of the Andhra Pradesh parliament members, said president of the union KA Nageswara Rao.
Talking to The Hans India, here on Tuesday, Nageswara Rao said that they would demand Rs 50 lakh in compensation besides employment to one member of the family as it was being done in case of uniformed service personnel.
To demand compensation to civilians on a par with air force personnel
The government stopped payment of salaries, since September and sought a no objection certificate for issuing death certificate,e which would help in getting all the formal benefits, Rao said.
The deceased NAD employees were chargeman B Samba Murthy, armament fitters RV Prasad Babu, P Nagendra Rao, Purna Chandra Senapati, Charan Maharana, trademan mate N Chinna Rao, G Srinivasa Rao and examiner Bhupendra Singh.
Nageswara Rao said six of the family signed the no objection papers while the family members of Samba Murthy and RV Prasad Babu are yet to sign.
“They are sentimental about the issue and still think that their spouses would return home, since the search operation could not find any evidence of sinking of the aircraft in deep sea,” Rao said.
Sources in the NAD said only a departmental enquiry was ordered and there was no high-level or judicial enquiry into the flight conditions and how the civil employees were ordered to travel in an aircraft that had experienced technical snags many times.
It was on July 22, the ill-fated aircraft of the IAF 32 , with 29 personnel on board, including four officers, had gone missing over the Bay of Bengal on its way from Chennai to Port Blair, soon after taking off from Tambaram air base.
Country’s biggest search in the history was launched involving Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, NIO and NIOT but nothing was found.
