Gadchiroli SP promises to help children of Jambhulkheda blast martyrs on 1st anniversary

Nagpur: SP Shailesh Balkawade, who visited the families of the martyrs of Jambhulkheda blast in Gadchiroli on Friday on the first anniversary of the episode, assured to help their children to complete education without having to bear the burden of expenditure.
Around 15 jawans of the Quick Response Team (QRT) from Kurkheda police station, along with a driver, were blown up in a powerful blast at Lendhari talao culvert on Jambhulkheda-Purada road in north Gadchiroli’s Maoist-affected Kurkheda taluka on May 1 last year.
The jawans were heading to Purada police station to escort police personnel up to Dadapur village where the Maoists had torched around 36 vehicles of a road construction company in protest earlier in the day. The investigation was later taken up by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which has already filed a chargesheet in the case.
Balkawade said the government has already promised providing education free up to graduation for the children of the martyrs but many times private institutions raises questions on it. “Many private institutions and tutorials express doubts whether the government decision to provide free education would be applicable on them too,” said the SP.
“We are sorting out such issues through the district education officer and I will ensure the bottlenecks are cleared up at the earliest,” said Balkawade.
Balkawade said some of the family members of Jambhulkheda blast martyrs had expressed deep concern over their children’s future when he had gone to meet them. “We had also in the past taken up with the government regarding the issues of employments of the family members of the martyrs who are not willing to take up jobs in the police department or in other districts too when they were tried to be rehabilitated,” said the SP.
Balkawade, who had led the wreath-laying ceremony on the memorial of the martyrs on Friday, said the respective unit commanders of different districts were told through the wireless communication to meet the families of the Jambhulkheda blasts at their residences during the course of the day.
Balkawade said all the monetary dues of the martyrs’ families have been settled along with their different claims from the government. “We had observed certain issues within the families of the martyrs which were addressed and solved. Police had also suggested the families about safe investments and not fall prey to traps,” he said.