A study by Primus Partners shows that widespread unawareness leaves eligible hit-and-run victims without their mandated statutory compensation. Although the revised February 2022 framework offers Rs 2 lakh for deaths and Rs 50,000 for grievous injuries, excessive procedural layers and deterring formalities restrict successful payouts to fewer than 8,000 applicants per year. To fix these breakdowns, analysts recommend shifting to system-initiated claims via the eDAR platform and tasking district police departments with filing cases suo motu.
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District police departments should initiate hit-and-run compensation processes suo motu t…: District police departments should initiate hit-and-run compensation processes suo motu to guarantee eligible victims obtain statutory payouts.
Digital integration through the eDAR platform and Common Service Centres can bypass tedio…: Digital integration through the eDAR platform and Common Service Centres can bypass tedious administrative bottlenecks and redundant processing layers.
The report recommends that the Union government implement a formula-based annual revision…: The report recommends that the Union government implement a formula-based annual revision to keep hit-and-run compensation amounts adequate.
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NEW DELHI: Around 75% of eligible hit-and-run victims and their families miss out on compensation provided in the
Motor Vehicles Act, according to a new report based on govt data on hit-and-run cases and compensations disbursed.
The report by Primus Partners, a management consultancy firm, revealed that close to 70,000 hit-and-run cases are reported annually on average, claiming over 30,000 lives and leaving another 16,000 people seriously injured. Going by the compensation norm in the MV Act, the total annual compensation, taking into account all cases, should be around Rs 600 crore. However, less than Rs 300 crore has been disbursed in four years, highlighting a stark delivery gap.
The updated Compensation to Victims of Hit and Run Motor Accidents Scheme rolled out in Feb 2022 provides Rs 2 lakh for death and Rs 50,000 for grievous injury.
The report said, "As against an annual average 30,000 deaths and 16,000 grievous hurt victims due to hit-and-run accidents, number of claims registered have been less than 10,000 annually. Further, even after registering claims, less than 8,000 claimants have received compensation annually.
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