The victims of the major fire at Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour on November 19 received financial assistance from the Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday (November 23).
Fisheries Minister Seediri Appalaraju said that the government paid ₹7,11,76,000 as compensation for the damages done to the properties including 49 boats and others to the affected families. A sum of ₹10,000 was also given to 400 workers each who were dependents on these boats that were damaged in the fire.
Cheques for the compensation amount were presented to the affected families at the Zilla Parishad Meeting Hall in the presence of Information Technology Minister Gudivada Amarnath, MPs M.V.V. Satyanarayana and Mopidevi Venkataramana, MLAs Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao, Tippala Nagi Reddy and Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar, and YSRCP regional co-ordinator Y.V. Subba Reddy.
