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3.10 Ensuring Compensation
Complaint No- Ra- 57/20
'A' complained that he worked under
sub-contractor of Bangladesh Rural
Electrification Board. According to the
order of the authority, he was working
to sort out electricity line. And during
work, he was electrified and had to cut
his two legs and right hand. He
complained that indifferent attitude of
the authority and devaluation of the
staff caused the accident. The
contractor company did not bear any
treatment cost for him. Even they did
not pay his salary.
In response to the letter sent from
NHRC, the Rural Electrification Board
reported that according to the NHRC’s
instruction they have enacted a
guideline to provide compensation to
such victims. In that guideline it is
mentioned that injured person who
gets injury by electrical accident will
get money for medical treatment 10 lac
taka will be given to the persons who
die of electrical accident and 5 lac taka
will be given to the person who
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become disable. Accordingly, the
contractor company had given 5 lac
taka to Mr. A as compensation and one
lac taka as aid.
Complaint No- 405/13
Mr. Forkan, coordinator of Children’s
Charity Bangladesh Foundation drew
attention of NHRC to the newspaper
report on “Domestic help tortured”
published in the Daily Star. It was
reported that, police rescued tortured
Khadiza from Mirpur and admitted her
in Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The case had been discussed in
Full-Bench of NHRC and as per the
decision of the bench NHRC sent letter
to the Public Security Division for
ensuring justice and compensation for
Khadiza. The Public Security Division
informed that as per NHRC’s
recommendation the Division has
generated new fund code for the first
time for giving compensation to the
victims and they had provided 50,000
BDT to Khadiza as financial
assistance.
National Human Rights Commission
Annual Report 2021
55