Rs. Five lakh compensation declared by CM Uttarakhand for late Pappu Karki’s bereaved family

The chief minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Rawat has officially sanctioned Rs Five Lakhs from the chief minister’s discreationary fund to the bereaved family of Pappu Karki a renowned upcoming singer of Uttarakhand and number one in Kumaon, extremely popular heart throb of millions who met his sad end in a car accident just a few days ago in Uttarakhand leaving behind a distressed family of three, two children and wife behind.

According to the prominent music director and producer of Uttarakhand, Rajendra Chouhan, this is for the first time that the collective unity of the folk artists, singers, the theatre activists and the musicians and the major role of the social media have finally shown effective results thus compelling the state chief minister bow to the demand for adequate financial compensation to the family of the talented singer Pappu Karki and others who’d died in road accidents leaving their families in lurch and financial disarray.

A delegation of the Uttarakhand artists led by Rajendra Chouhan had earlier met the Cultural Secretary of Uttarakhand government as well as the education minister Dhan Singh Rawat presenting them memorandum demanding compensation of Rs. Five Lakhs to the bereaved family of Pappu Karki and two other young artists namely Amit Shah and Rajesh Negi who died in a road accident in Seelakoi three days prior to Karki’s death.

While the chief minister has announced Rs. Five lakh compensation for Pappu Karki, the aid for other two deceased is to follow afterwards said Chouhan.

Born in 1984 Pappu Karki was an extremely popular singer of Uttarakhand having sung in at least 50 CDs being sold in the market and has sung in umpteen events and musical nights in India as well as abroad like Dubai etc. His fan following was in millions and was a rising super star singer of Uttarakhand in the days to come having been lauded by one and all including the legendary number one singer Narendra Singh Negi.