I.A. Ansari, J.

1. This is an appeal made under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1973, against the judgment and award, dated 30.5.1998, passed in TS (MAC) No. 176/1994, by the learned Member, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, West Tripura, Agartala, awarding a sum of Rs. 50,000 only as compensation to the claimants, who are parents of deceased Nemai Debnath, who died in a motor vehicular accident, on 29.7.1994, at the age of 6 years. Challenging the compensation awarded as inadequate, the appellants have preferred this appeal.

2. We have heard Mr. A.C. Bhowmick, learned counsel for the appellants, and Mr. A Gon choudhury, learned counsel for the insurer-respondent.

3. The limited question, which has been raised in this appeal, is the quantum of compensation, which should have had been awarded to the claimants-appellants. In Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Shri Josua Halam and Ors., decided on 9.2.2005, a Division Bench of this Court (to which one of us, A.B. Pal, J, was a party), while dealing with the principles governing fixation of amount of compensation in respect of a four years old child, observed as follows:

In C.K. Subramania Iyer and Ors. v. T. Kunhikuttan Nair and