Standing Committee on Railways invites suggestions to prevent filing of duplicate compensation claims
By TIOL News Service
NEW DELHI, OCT 31, 2014: PARLIAMENTARY Standing Committee on Railways has invited suggestions from the public, NGOs, experts and stakeholders on ‘The Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014. The Bill to amend the Railways Act, 1989 seeks to prevent the filing of larger number of duplicate cases of compensation claims in different benches of Railways Claims Tribunals and to exclude the liability of Railways in accidental falling from the ambit of untoward incident and categorise it separately.
Speaker of Lok Sabha Ms. Sumitra Mahajan referred the Bill to the Standing Committee headed by Mr Dinesh Trivedi. All those interested in submitting written memoranda/suggestion to the Committee may send two copies of the same either in English or Hindi to: Additional Director, Lok Sabha Secretariat, Room No.618, Parliament House Annexe, New Delhi-110001. The same can be mailed on comrail@sansad.nic.in and standingcommitteeonrailways@gmail.com.
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