₹10 lakh each to the kin of the other 19 soldiers who were martyred in Galwan Valley Hyderabad: The country should send a message to the Defence forces guarding the borders that it stood with them, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao said on Friday as he announced ex-gratia to the families of 20 soldiers killed in the Indo-China faceoff in Ladakh.
The Telangana government would give ₹five crore ex- gratia to the family of 39-year old Colonel Bikkumalla Santosh Babu and ₹10 lakh each to the kin of the 19 other soldiers who were martyred in the high altitude border clash with the Chinese troops in Galwan Valley on Monday night, he said.The Centre and other state governments should also come forward to support the families of the.