Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 16 2009:
The wife of a driver of the state chief minister O Ibobi who died in a road accident on March 12 last will enjoy a special pension under the liberalized pension rules of the state government.
State Cabinet had approved it, official source said.
Ahongshangbam Dilip of Thoubal Leishangthem, driver of the Manipur Secretariat and served as driver of the chief minister, O Ibobi, died in an road accident along the Indo-Myanmar road on March 12. A Cabinet meeting on March 13 at the cabinet room of the chief minister's bungalow discussed on a proposal of the state general administration department for grant of special pension to the wife of the deceased driver on special case and granting of ex-gratia to the family of the decease.
The cabinet approved to the payment of special pension to her wife under the liberalized pension rules of the government and grant of ex-gratia of Rs 3 lakhs to the family of the deceased.