Anantapur shocker: 510 electrocuted in four years

ANANTAPUR: The district has witnessed a high number of 510 electrocution deaths in the last four years. However, only 42 families of the victims have received compensation. According to official information, 132 people were electrocuted in 2018-19. Only kin of eight victims was paid compensation. In 2019-20, 119 were electrocuted and only 11 victims’ families had got compensation.

Of the total 130 people who died of electrocution in 2020-21, only 12 families of victims were paid compensation. In 2021-22, only nine families of the electrocution victims had received compensation of a total of 129. The victims included children, employees, workers and farmers. In the case of farmers who died of electrocution, most of the mishaps occurred when they themselves undertook motor pump set repairs when the electricity department staff failed to turn up. In several cases, farmers accidentally came in contact with live wires in agricultural fields when they got snapped.