N’PADA LABOURER FROM AP KILN DIES IN TRAIN MISHAP

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N’PADA LABOURER FROM AP KILN DIES IN TRAIN MISHAP

Wednesday, 18 December 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in Bhubaneswar
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Bidyadhar Gahir (25) of Kusmal village of Nuapada district was crushed to death under wheels of train at Muniguda railway station. Bidyadhar was returning from a brick kiln in Andhra Pradesh with his wife Bhanumati and two children.
“We were to get off the train at Titlagarh station, but thinking Muniguda as Titlagarh, my husband asked me to get off. He took the younger child and got off although the train was on the move. I stayed back with my elder child in the train,” said Bhanumati. The passengers in the train being alerted by Bhanumati pulled the chain and the train stopped at a little distance. When Bhanu got off the train, she found the child in the platform and her husband on the railway track. “The people in the platform said me that, my husband threw the child to the platform while slipping in to the line,” added Bhanu, trying to hold beck her tears. The child got minor injury.
Bidyadhar took an advance of Rs26,000 from a labour broker (Dalal) named Chakra Bag of Gandabaheli village to work in a brick kiln for six months. He had left the village a month ago with his wife Bhanumati and two small children below 3 years. The children were severely affected with scabies during their stay in the kiln.
 “We thus requested the Seth (Contractor) after a month to give us leave and assured him that we would join the kiln after our children got well. The Seth asked us to return the advance in full. I asked my father to return the money to the broker by arranging a loan from a moneylender. When the broker informed the Seth that he had received the money, we were released from the kiln,” said Bhanumati.
Bidyadhar had half an acre of agricultural land. The income from the land was not sufficient to feed the family. He had obtained loan from a money lender to treat his children when they were suffering from diarrhoea. The advance he took from the broker was paid to the money lender. There is no other source of living for Bhanumati, now. She has borrowed again to complete the rituals of her husband. “We might have to mortgage the land for this,” her father-in-law said. Bhanu is yet to get the death certificate and the postmortem report from the authorities at Muniguda, which is far away from her village. “I do not know how to bring that,” said Bhanu.
In the meantime, two persons claiming themselves as advocates of High Court have visited the house of Bhanu and obtained her signatures in plain papers saying that they were going to file insurance claim in the court.\\ Bhanumati’s brother and his wife along with two other relatives who had accompanied Bidya and Bhanu are still there in the kiln. Bhanu said that they also wanted to come back, but were not allowed.

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