The Central Information Commission has directed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's office to consider a uniform<br/>policy for providing compensation to the families of government employees who die on duty. Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu emphasised that there should be no discrimination between the compensation given to a soldier and a doctor. He pointed out that Delhi government had enhanced the compensation to uniformed men who lose their lives on duty to one crore rupees.<br/><br/>Mr Acharyulu directed the Public Information Officer of the Chief Minister's Office to put all related files and papers before the Mr Kejriwal and the Deputy Chief Minister to help them consider a uniform policy of providing compensation to families of government employees, including doctors, killed on duty. He said that the Delhi government on 1st April 1 last year announced that the policy will cover officers of Delhi Police, personnel of armed forces and paramilitary forces hailing from Delhi, personnel from other forces serving Delhi government, civil defence and home guards. Mr Acharyulu added that like a police officer, a doctor is also risking life by exposure to deadly diseases, which is no less than facing bullets. He was hearing the plea of Anita Singh whose son Dinesh Kumar Singh was a Senior Resident and who died because of exposure to swine-flu while on duty.
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Consider uniform compensation policy for govt employees: CIC