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Lok Sabha
The Minister of State for External Affairs, Shri E. Ahamed informed the Lok Sabha that United Nations Compensation Commission has sent us a list of 8,615 claimant Indian citizens working in Kuwait during Gulf war, whose claim amounts were returned to United Nations Compensation Commission because they could not be located within the period allowed by United Nations Compensation Commission for disbursement of a particular lot.
This list has been given by the Special Kuwait Cell, Ministry of External Affairs to the four nationalised banks designated for the task of disbursement of Gulf War compensation. This list has also been sent to the Indian Missions in the Gulf countries, as well as to various State Governments. All concerned have been asked to give maximum publicity to this list of untraced claimants in the areas of their respective jurisdiction and such claimants have been asked to get in touch with Special Kuwait Cell, Ministry of External Affairs with their latest address.
The Minister added that a total number of 1,51,851 claims by Indian citizens from all the four categories was registered with Special Kuwait Cell, Ministry of External Affairs. These aggregated to a total claimed amount of $1,512,394,943/- and a total amount of US $ 948,151,360.53 was received from United Nations Compensation Commission for all categories. Out of this a total amount of US $ 917,575,243.36 has been paid as on 16.8.2005 to the claimants for all categories.
The above information was given by the Minister in reply to a question by Shri Thawarchand Gehlot.
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