Chennai:
State Transport Undertakings ( STUs) have not paid compensation to accident victims as directed by courts despite setting up ‘Accident Claims Settlement Fund’, according to a report by comptroller and Auditor General.
Many of the victims are still awaiting compensation from the state transport undertaking for more than 10 years which has failed to honour Motor Accident Compensation Tribunal.
It is learnt that state transport undertakings have not settled claims cases devided by various cases and the numbers increased from 11, 721 involving Rs 224.49 crore as on March 31, 2010 to 16, 797 cases involving Rs 435.07 crore as on March 31, 2015.
In addition there were 5,382 fatal (Rs 716.65 crore) and 22,702 injury cases (Rs 786. 94 crore) totalling 28,084 accident claims amounting to Rs 1,504 crore which had not been decided upon by courts, the report stated
The report also stated that after pronouncement of awards of accident compensation by Motor accident Compensation Tribunal (MACT), the STUs failed to make payments of the awarded amount resulting in the claimants filing Execution Petition to enforce payments. As per audit analysis, there are 699 executive petitions involving Rs 25.64 crore awarded by the courts but not settled by two STUs till July 2015.
Due to non-settlement of awarded cases by the state transport undertakings, 4,771 buses were impounded by various courts during the five year period ending March 2015. Of these, 4,771 buses impounded by various courts, 692 buses were not released as on march 2015. this resulted in loss of operation of 4.24 lakh days resulting in loss of contribution of rs 213.37 crore besides affecting the image of STUs adversely among public.
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