NEW DELHI: There is a ray of hope for about 428 people, who are yet to receive compensation from the United Nations Compensation Commission after being uprooted from Iraq and Kuwait during the first Gulf War, as the CIC directed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to disclose the status of payment.
Acting on the plea of an RTI applicant, the Central Information Commission has directed the External Affairs Ministry to give the status of compensation to be paid by the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) to Indians who were uprooted from Kuwait and Iraq during the 1991 war.
RTI applicant Prakash Pradhan, based in Khurda in Odsiha, approached the Supreme Court seeking to know information related to the payment of compensation by the UNCC to the displaced Indians, particularly workers from his district.
