Hit-and-Run Payout Doubled to Rs 500,000 — Will It Change Anything on the Road?

The National Council for Road Safety has doubled the compensation for hit-and-run deaths from Rs 250,000 to Rs 500,000, and for serious injuries from Rs 150,000 to Rs 300,000, according to news out this week. It's the first revision in years and comes straight from Ministry of Transport funds, paid out to families who lose someone to a driver who never stops. One side says any increase is welcome and overdue — the old figure was already a joke against hospital bills and funeral costs, let alone years of lost income for a family. The other side says this misses the actual problem: drivers flee because they're scared of mob justice or a drawn-out court case, not because the state payout is too small, and no amount of compensation fixes that calculation in a panicking driver's head. There's also the harder question of whether Rs 500,000 is even close to real damages when the breadwinner is the one killed. Has anyone here gone through the claim process — how long did it take, and did the amount even come close to covering what the family actually lost? මෙම වැටුප වැඩි කළත්, රිය පැදවූ කෙනා පැනලා යෑමේ හේතුව මුදල නොවේ කියලා හිතෙනවද?