Govt receives compensations from UAE

The wage earners’ welfare board under expatriate welfare and overseas employment ministry said Sunday that it had just received the compensations for the 16 Bangladeshi workers who had died in a road accident in the UAE on February 4, 2013.
Officials said that the WEWB had just received in its bank account 3.2 million UAE dirham, equivalent to Tk 676. 80 million, as the compensations for the 16 road accident victims of Bangladesh.
They said that WEWB would distribute the compensations to the successors of the victims.
The bus accident at Al Ain, one of the biggest road accidents in UAE, claimed the lives of 21 expatriate workers, 19 of them Bangladeshis.
UAE insurance company ‘Aman’ paid the compensations following a recent order from an Al Ain court, according to Gulf News.
WEWB director for finance and welfare Mohsin Chowdhury told New Age that on Sunday they received the bank advice on the payment.
Families of three victims received the compensation paid the insurance company from Bangladesh Embassy in Abu Dhabi in April, he said.
Bangladesh Embassy in Abu Dhabi identified the remaining 16 Bangladeshi victims as Shahjahan Mollah, son of Samad Molla, Bashar, son of Sheikh Alif, Md Borhan Uddin, son of Md Shah Alam, Md. Arif, son of Abdul Gani, Nur Alam, son of Abul Hossain, Md. Alauddin, son of late Abdul Motaleb, Wasir Ali, son of Wahab Ali, Md Faruq Hossain, son of Md Ruhul Amin, Uzzal Miah, son of Rooz Ali, Rokhan Munsi, son of Zahur
uddin Munsi, Anwar Hossain, son of Sundar Ali, Zainal Kabiraj, son of Kashem Kabiraj, Habibur Rahman, son of Md Malu Miah, Md Sirajul Islam Majumder, son of late Nazir Miah, Mohammad Nurul Alam, son of Md Aminul Haque and Md Faruk Hossain, son of Md Monir Hossain.
In April 23, the insurance company credited 3.2 million dirhams in the bank account of Bangladesh embassy, ambassdor Muhammad Imran told Gulf News.
He said that the families of the 16 victims authorized the embassy to receive the compensations on their behalf.
Bangladesh embassy’s labour counsellor in Abu Dhabi Arman Ullah Chowdhury in letter informed the wage earners’ welfare board that on May 4 the embassy had sent the compensation fund in the bank account of the board.