The compensation files are moving to and from between finance and medical education departments for the past eight years
After numerous pleas to the State Government over the past eight years, the kin of the deceased hospital employees of Cama Hospital finally received compensation which was due to them earlier this year. Four employees, two security guards — Bhanu Narkar and Babban Ughade and Thakur Waghela and Bhagan Shinde, ward boys at GT Hospital were killed in the encounter with terrorists on the fateful night of November 26, 2008.
In spite of clear directives issued in the Government Resolution of 2008 that the deceased's families will continue to receive salaries after their demise, they were still made to run from pillar to post to receive what was rightfully theirs. Narkar's family received a cumulative sum of Rs13 lakh in July this year, an amount that has been pending for over 8 years. 30-year-old Pravin Narkar, the deceased's son said, "We finally received our dues after persistent efforts at the Cama Hospital."
On questioning a senior bureaucrat from the medical education department about the compensation due, he said, "The compensation files are moving to and from between finance and medical education departments for the past eight years." After DNA published a report regarding pending dues stuck in red tape in 2014 Maharashtra CM, Devendra Fadanvis said, "I will look into it. I have forwarded the concerned matter to ministers in the finance and medical education department."
In 2015, a directive was passed to finally pay off the long-pending dues. Karuna Waghela (38), widow of Thakur Waghela who was shot dead by terrorists inside his hut after he was asked to serve them water, received a sum of close to four and a half lakh rupees earlier this year. "We were rightfully entitled to receive my husband's salaries every month for sustenance. Instead they gave us a paltry pension for all these years. Every single day, me and my three children have lead a hand to mouth existence," said Karuna.
43-year-old Sunanda Shinde, wife of the late Bhagan Shinde received close to Rs5 lakh. Bhagan on hearing gun shots had walked down the alleys off the main road to make a panic phone call from a public booth to Sunanda and their children, when he was shot from behind. 50-year-old Sushila Ughade received Rs8 lakh as salary dues after her husband Babban, who was guarding the Cama Hospital gates, was gunned down.
Dr Rajshree Katke, superintendent of Cama Hospital had stressed for the deceased hospital employees to be given the same dues given to the police force. "The hospital employees should also rightly be addressed as 'martyrs.' They lay down their lives in the line of duty. We have doggedly persisted with the finance department to interpret the GR in the right light and give the employees' families their rightful dues. It has taken long, but we have succeeded," said Katke.
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