The family members of R. Satish, 34, a worker employed by a contractor for the Madurai Corporation, who died during a rescue operation that went wrong at Vilangudi here on Friday, have received ₹10 lakh as compensation from the State government.
Mayor Indrani Ponvasanth handed over the financial assistance (under the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund and the Tamil Nadu Construction Workers’ Welfare Board) to S. Devi, 33, the wife of the deceased. Satish, belonging to Suriyampalayam in Erode, is survived by his wife and two children aged 13 and 3.
Satish was killed while being rescued by an earthmover from a 13-foot trench in which he had been buried. He was laying the underground drainage pipeline at Ramamurthy Nagar near Vilangudi. Following the post-mortem, the family received the body at the Government Rajaji Hospital.
