(1) The Committee shall maintain the victim relief fund in accordance with section 12 of the Act.
(2) The cheque signing authority of the victim relief fund shall be the chairman and the member secretary of the committee.
Provided that the committee may delegate the cheque signing power to any other officer.
(3) The fund shall be utilized for the purpose of liability arising out of any claim awarded to the victims.
(4) The Chairman shall be the controlling authority of the victim relief fund.
(5) Shall file an application to the Deputy Commissioner within a period of three months from the date of occurrence of the health hazard or the date on which he is affected.
Provided that the Committee may entertain applications after the expiry of above period if it is satisfied that the applicant had sufficient cause for not submitting the application with in the time limit.
(6) The Applicant shall be referred to the District Health Officer to certify as to whether the victim is suffering with a disease related to and as a result of pollutants released by the Stone Crusher units.
(7) The application shall be considered by the committee for determining the amount of relief to be granted to the victim.
(8) After the approval of the Committee the relief if any has to be granted within a period of three months from the date of application.
(9) The amount of compensation shall be computed by the Committee, in consideration with the provision for similar disease as per Karnataka State Health Claims rules and norms and the same shall be referred as standard.
(10) The committee may also direct the license holders to pay such additional amount to such of victims in accordance with sub-section (5) of section 12.