Belgarhia residents hold stir for pending allowances
Jharia rehab authority promises to clear dues soon
Over 50 residents of Belgarhia colony of Jharia held a demonstration at the office of the Jharia Rehabilitation Development Authority at Hirapur demanding immediate payment of dues, including their subsistence allowance.
The protestors also raised the issue of irregular water supply in their colony and other difficulties like lack of transport facilities which were affecting their livelihood. Baidyanath Kumbhkar (55), one of the protestors, said, “We shifted to the colony in 2017 from the underground fire-hit Lodna area and have been provided shifting allowance of Rs 10,000 in 2018.”
As per rehabilitation provisions of the Jharia master plan, each family was to be provided 500 days' minimum wage as subsistence allowance, he said. "We were entitled to a subsistence allowance of Rs 1.8 lakh to be provided in three installments,” he said, adding that they received Rs 45,000 as the first installment four years after the shifting in 2020. "We are yet to get the 2nd and 3rd installments," he said.