The insurance scheme issue in the University of Pune (UoP) appears to be getting somewhere finally and according to UoP’s senior senate member Prof Nandkumar Nikam, who pioneered the scheme in the 90s, the students’ welfare department was given the responsibility to ensure claims in case of accident or death of student on record were done at the earliest.

MiD DAY has been covering the issue in a three-part series and according to official documents of the UoP, out of 53 cases of accidental deaths and accidents recorded last year, 30 cases are yet to be settled by insurance companies.