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PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Saturday announced that each of the kin of two CRPF personnel from Bihar martyred in Pulwama terror attack would be given financial assistance of Rs 25 lakh from CM Relief Fund apart from the ex-gratia of Rs 11 lakh. The bus was a part of a massive convoy which was reporting at least 2,600 CRPF personnel for deployment in violence hit areas of J&K.Singh and Thakur were also travelling on the same bus. Government would take a call if to hand over financial assistance to family for education at or to pay it later when required at time of admission in any course,” he said.State government earlier had a policy of paying Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia to para-military personnel and Rs 11 lakh for military personnel. Huge crowd with tricolours in hand and raising slogans for the both martyrs, poured at their last journey in Patna and Bhagalpur where they were cremated with full state honour.DGP Gupteshwar Pandey along with Yadav also gave their shoulders for carrying remains of both martyrs at airport. This is perhaps first time that state government had announced additional financial assistance apart from ex-gratia.Nitish made the announcement immediately after laying wreath on the mortal remains of Sanjay Kumar Singh and Ratan Kumar Thakur at Patna airport which had reached through a special Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft on Saturday morning.40 CRPF personnel, travelling in a bus, were killed in a suicide car bombing attack on national highway at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday afternoon..