Bhubaneswar, May 12: An ex-gratia of Rs 15 lakh will be provided to the family of the poll official who died in a road mishap, said Odisha Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) NB Dhal on Sunday.
According to the ECI guidelines, the sum will be granted to the next of the kin of Alekh Randheri who was crushed to death in Nabarangpur during his transit to the polling booth as a polling officer.
Worth mentioning, Alekh Randhari, a Class-IV employee of a government school, was killed in a road accident near Swami Vivekananda Vidyamandir in Nabarangpur district on Saturday while he was on the way to a polling station for the upcoming dual elections in Odisha scheduled on Monday.
