Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has directed officials to release a compensation of ₹5 lakh each to the family members of the victims of fire in Yadgir district recently.
In all, twelve persons have been killed in the fire following a cylinder blast at Doranahalli village in Shahpur taluk recently. These people succumbed to burn injuries in hospitals in Kalaburagi and Solapur in Maharashtra.
The CM has issued the direction following a requisition made by Minister for Animal Husbandry and District In-charge Prabhu Chavan and Venkatareddy Mudnal and Narasimha Nayaka (Raju Gowda) in Bengaluru on Friday.
