Hyderabad: Seven years after he laid down his life for his country, soldier Mohammed Feroz Khan’s family will finally receive the Rs 3 million announced by the state government as part of a gallantry award.
The state government had announced the grant to Khan’s family but it remained stuck in administerial red tape for years.
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Finally, the General Administration Department issued an order on Thursday sanctioning an amount of Rs 2,976,750 to Khan’s wife Nasreen as Rs 23,250 was already paid. The order has now reached the Hyderabad district collector Shweta Mohanty’s office and the amount will be handed over to the family next week, officials said.
Lance Naik Feroz Khan of Madrash Regiment was killed during Pakistani gunfire in Poonch Sector in Jammu and Kashmir in October 2013 and was laid to rest in his hometown Hyderabad with full state honours. At the time the government of undivided Andhra Pradesh had promised ex gratia of Rs 500,000 and a house site to the bereaved family. The file moved at a snail’s pace and the family was made to run from pillar to post as officials passed the buck to each other.
As the government of India announced the army’s gallantry award for Feroz posthumously, the state government issued a new order on June 18, 2018 increasing the reward amount to Rs 3 million.
But the matter continued to hang fire. Nasreen and her three children continued to wait for the promised house site in Hyderabad and the money.
Though the family was finally allotted a 200 square yard house site in Hyderabad in January 2019, the process continued on the issue of reward money.
The issue came into sharp focus in June this year when 20 Indian soldiers died in a clash with the Chinese army in Laddakh, one of them Col Santosh Babu from Telangana and Telangana Chief Minister announced a generous package for his family.
It included Rs 50 million as ex gratia, a house site in Hyderabad and class I job for colonel’s wife Santoshi.
As the Chief Minister visited the house of Santosh Babu in Suryapet, Feroz Khan’s family in Hyderabad demanded Chief Minister’s intervention.
What crime we have committed that our family is being made to run from pillar to post”, asked Moinuddin Khan, father in law of Feroz Khan. “My daughter is facing a lot of financial difficulties in raising her three children”, he added.
Regional Sainik Welfare Officer had written to the state government to grant the money in October 2018 and the Hyderabad district collector had written to General Administration department in November 2018 in this regard. But the Pay and Accounts department sent the proposal back saying the money was not sanctioned by the state finance department for the family.
The same process was restarted again culminating in a fresh go.
The development came a day after Santoshi was formally appointed as deputy collector in Hyderabad. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who met her and 20 other members of Colonel Santosh’s family over lunch at his residence in Hyderabad also handed over the orders allotting a house site of 711 square yards worth Rs 100 million in the posh Banjara Hills area of the city. The government also directed the officials that Santoshi’s posting should be in Hyderabad or nearby places.
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