Bengaluru: The state government would be examining the proposal to compensate soldiers sacrificing lives for the nation with Rs 25 lakh, said Home Minister G Parameshwara. Siachen soldiers’ kin had received a similar amount recently.

The minister was responding on questions from BJP MLCs B J Puttaswamy and Capt Ganesh Karnik. He told that in addition to increasing the ex gratia amount from Rs two lakh to Rs five lakh, the government had compensated three soldiers who died in an avalanche in Siachen with Rs 25 lakh from the Chief Ministers Relief Fund.

Parameshwara said that the decision of paying the special compensation of Rs 25 lakh would be reviewed. While it was an easy process of paying the ex gratia, handing over of sites and land was into procedural delay, like it had happened in the case of  Lt Colonel Niranjan E K, who died in the Pathankot attack.

He said Lt Col Niranjan’s wife was yet to return from her hometown in Kerala and submit the related documents. From 2011, as many as nine soldiers from the state have sacrificed their lives for the nation.