Excise Minister Kollu Ravindra interacting with the kin of six missing fishermen at Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour on Wednesday.
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The government on Wednesday distributed financial assistance of ₹10 lakh to the families of the six fishermen who went missing in the Bay of Bengal off the Visakhapatnam coast after their boat capsized on July 4, amid the protest by the families and local fishermen demanding intensified search and more compensation.The joint search operation launched by the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard was called off on Wednesday as the fishermen or the wreckage of the boat could not be traced within the standard 72-hour search window. The three-member panel, in their report submitted to the government, recommended that the missing fishermen be presumed dead.
Excise Minister Kollu Ravindra being stopped by protesters, including the family of the six missing fishermen, demanding more compensation, after the former distributed ₹10 lakh in the form of cheques to the families of fishermen at the Vizag Fishing Harbour on Wednesday.
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