Orissa HC pulls up Govt for rejecting ex-gratia application of daily wager’s family

The Orissa High Court has pulled up the authorities in Odisha’s Nayagarh district in rejecting the ex-gratia compensation payment to a family which lost their sole breadwinner to landslide way back in 2013 by observing that “welfare state is required to act rationally and the policies are required to be reasonable”.