Delhi govt clears policy to give jobs to kin of 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims

The Delhi government has approved a policy to provide jobs to the dependents of victims who lost their lives in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on compassionate grounds, a statement from Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said on Thursday.

Giving details of the decision taken in the Cabinet meeting a day before, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said that the new policy “marks a concrete step towards expediting long-pending cases of employment assistance that remained unresolved since the Cabinet decision of 2007”.

Under the new policy, dependents of victims who are now above 50 years of age and unable to take up employment, will have the option to nominate a member of the next generation such as a son, daughter, daughter-in-law, or son-in-law for the job.