Zakhas News >> Delhi blasts: Victims struggle to cope

It's been exactly a week since the Delhi blasts.

Many of the families devastated after the blasts will take years to recover.

Though compensation has been announced, many young children don't know what tomorrow will bring.

Eight-year-old Kirti fondly looks at a family photograph trying to remember happier days.

Out of a family of five, today only her brother Manish is alive. Her mother and sister died in the Delhi blasts.

Two years back, after his father died, Manish quit studies to run the family food stall to support his family but now despite the Rs 8 lakh compensation declared by the government, the 16-year-old is unsure of his future.

"I do not know what I will do but I know I have to do something," said Manish.

The Delhi government has said that apart from the special cell comprising of CAs, lawyers and government officials to advise people on how to use the compensation money, the chief minister's office will personally supervise the disbursement of compensation in special cases.

The formalities for distribution have already begun. Officials have visited the two children and done the necessary paper work but a lot more clearly needs to be done.