Pahalgam victim's daughter gets Maha govt job

THE Pune Mayor on Wednesday handed over the appointment letter to Asawari Jagdale, daughter of a Pahalgam terror attack victim, appointing her as an administrative officer in the Pune Municipal Corporation.

- SUDHIR SURYAWANSHI @ Mumbai

The appointment follows this newspaper's coverage highlighting Asawari’s struggle to get her documents processed after the government had promised her a job.

Asawari, a computer graduate with a master’s degree in human resources, was promised a government job by Union Minister Amit Shah, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, and Deputy CM Eknath Shinde when they met her to condole the death of her father, Santosh Jagdale, and six others from Maharashtra who were killed in the terror attack.

The state government had promised financial aid and government jobs to the kin of the deceased.