CM Yogi announces Rs 50 lakh aid to Wing Cdr Prithvi Chauhan's family

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday announced Rs 50 lakh aid for the Agra-based family of Wing Commander Prithvi Singh Chauhan, who was killed after the Mi17V5 chopper of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. Prithvi was the pilot of the ill-fated helicopter. Adityanath said that a state government job would be provided to a family member of Prithvi, and an institution in Uttar Pradesh will also be named after him. “His last rites will be done in Agra with state honours,” Adityanath also prays for the recovery of Group Captain Varun Singh who is the lone survivor of the chopper crash. Yogi Adityanath met family members of Wing Commander Prithvi Singh Chauhan in Agra..

Prithvi's family was originally based in Madhya Pradesh where he attended the Sainik School in Rewa and got selected at the National Defence Academy (NDA). In 2006, the family moved to Agra. At the time of death, Prithvi was posted at the IAF station in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Union defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday that the Centre has ordered a tri-service inquiry into the crash in which the first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat, and 11 other Armed Forces personnel, including Prithvi, were killed.