KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, March 1: A young woman who used to work as a contract worker at a construction site in XLRI Jamshedpur campus in Bistupur was electrocuted on Friday evening.
Resenting the electrocution death, the relatives and sympathisers of the victim on Saturday blocked the B-school’s gate, demanding adequate compensation to her kin.
Protest and compensation demand
Identified as Pan Sardar, the electrocution victim was a resident of Beldihgram, a slum located near the XLRI. The 27-year-old deceased was the only bread-earner of the family and used to work as a contract worker there at the XLRI campus for the past six years.
As the victim’s elderly parents are unable to earn, her relatives and fellow slum-dwellers are demanding Rs 15 lakhs as compensation so that the couple may pass the remaining parts of their life with ease.
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The deceased’s cousin brother, Mukesh Sardar, was said to have demanded Rs 15 lakhs as compensation, failing which they would not allow the police to lift the body from the Tata Main Hospital.
Beldihgram’s mukhiya, Khaira Hessa, who had also participated in the blockade at the B-school’s gate, said the management of the premier institute should pay Rs 15 lakhs towards the compensation.
Negotiations ongoing as XLRI offers Rs 8 lakh
However, insiders revealed that the XLRI management offered the victim’s family a compensation package of Rs 8 lakhs besides the medical expenses at the Tata Main Hospital.
According to the sources, the negotiations between the XLRI management and the protestors over the compensation package are still going on at the time this report was being compiled.
Pan Sardar had been rushed by the contractor’s men to Tata Main Hospital soon after she was electrocuted. She succumbed to electrocution after a while of her treatment at the hospital.
The management of the B-school is trying to find out the reason behind the lady worker’s electrocution death.
