The bench said the monthly ex gratia amounts were fixed in 2017 and should be revised upward “particularly bearing in mind the current inflation”.

The Supreme Court Thursday asked the Centre to consider enhancing the monetary compensation and insurance cover of cadets who are medically boarded out after suffering varying degrees of disabilities during military training, and come up with a scheme for resettling those who had recovered.

A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and P K Mishra, which had taken suo motu cognisance on August 18 of The Indian Express reports published on August 11, Thursday perused a status report filed by the government.

The bench said the monthly ex gratia amounts were fixed in 2017 and should be revised upward “particularly bearing in mind the current inflation”.

On August 18, the top court had also sought to know if the cadets had any medical insurance benefits. On Thursday, the top court said that ASG Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Centre, “pointed out that there is an insurance scheme in place under which compensation is provided in case of death or disablement…”