• All faith prayer meet solemnized

By Team Mangalorean

MANGALORE, July 27, 2010: 130 families of the victims of the IX 812 Air India Dubai Mangalore flight crash today got together for an all faith prayer meeting at Mangalore. They came from Bhatkal, Udupi, Kasargod, and various parts of Dakshina Kannada including Mangalore. The meeting was held in the TMA Pai Convention Hall.

CMD of Air India Mr.Arvind Jadhav, General Manager South Sunil Kishan, General Manager emergency response Ms. Harpreet Singh and secretary of civil aviation ministry Mr. Madhavan M. Nambiar paid respects to the unfortunate victims of the plane.

Mr. V.K. Ilhyas, Prof. M.B.Puranik, Gyani Shyam Singh, Dr. Denis Rasquinha, and Nirmal Kumar Jain presented prayers belonging to their respective religions. They all prayed to the god to give strength to the relatives and families of the victims to bear the grief of loss of their loved ones.

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Arvind Jadhav CMD of Air India told that Air India will be with the victims' families till they are settled in their lives, fully compensated monetarily, but the human losses they have undergone cannot be compensated.

Mr. Madhavan Nambiar also assured the families of the victims that government will to everything in its disposal to make the lives of the families comfortable.

Earlier in the day the Air India officials placed a wreath for each of the victims at the memorial site put up by the Air India at the site of Crash at Kenjar village in the valley of death.

It could be recalled that the flight had overshot the table top runway and plunged into the Karamabaru valley in Kenjar village near Bajpe killing 158 passengers including 6 crew members. 8 had survived in this horrific crash.

CMD AI assures action

MANGALORE: Chairman and managing director of the Air India Mr. Arvind Jadhav today assured that Air India will not shirk away from its responsibilities to help the families of the victims of the air crash. Speaking to reporters here today Mr. Jadhav said the report of board of enquiry will be brought to the public domain within next 90 days and whoever said that it was being delayed was nothing but lies.
 
Mr. Jadhav said Air India has given elaborate guidelines and instructions in a simplified manner to the families how to deal with the final compensation and to get the required papers. But among the families there were legal problems in determining the legal heir of the victim. “ We will not allow any family of the victim to go without final compensation. We are taking precautions that the compensation should not reach wrong hands” He said all that the families will have to do was to keep all the list of documents ready and present it along with the application.
 
Mr. Jadhav denied that there were deliberate delays in awarding the final compensation and bureaucratic process was taking too long. Mr. Jadhav said that the issue of giving jobs to the family members of the victims depended on what job they can do and whom to give the job among the family. This has to be decided at a later stage and Air India will actively look into the matter. Right now we want to reach the final compensation to every family he added.

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