Brig Lakhwinder Singh Lidder's family to get Rs50 lakh relief

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 14

CM Manohar Lal Khattar said financial assistance of Rs 50 lakh would be given to the family of Brig Lakhwinder Singh Lidder, a Haryana resident, who died in the Tamil Nadu helicopter crash accident recently.

Besides, one family member would be given a government job. “The untimely death of Brig Lidder is an irreparable loss to his family and the state,” Khattar said.

The Chief Minister said under the ex gratia policy of Sainik and Ardh Sainik Bal, there was a provision to provide financial assistance as well as government jobs to the dependents of martyrs’ families.

Under this policy, considering his death a ‘Provisional Battle Casualty’, special financial assistance and a job had been announced.

On December 8, CDS General Bipin Rawat, his wife and Brig Lidder, along with several Army personnel, died in a helicopter crash in Coonoor district of Tamil Nadu.

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