PRATYUSH KUMAR, J.

1. The instant appeal filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (hereinafter referred to as the 1988 Act'), is directed against the judgment and award dated 25.9.2006 passed by Shri O.P. Agrawal, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/Special Judge (E.C. Act), Jhansi in MACP No.312 of 2004 (Ajul Kumar v. Rajendra Prasad), seeking enhancement of the compensation amount.

2. Briefly stated the said claim petition was filed on behalf of appellant/claimant (hereinafter referred to as 'appellant') under Section 166 of the 1988 Act stating therein that the appellant was aged about 14 years, he was a student of Class VII. On 8.12.2003 at about 11 A.M. in front of Community Health Centre (CHC), Bangara, P.S. Ualdan, District Jhansi when the appellant was returning from Barat Pura on Tractor No. UP-93-J-9829, the driver of the tractor drove the tractor rashly and negligently and dashed with trolley attached with Escort Tractor No. U.P.-93-F-3622, in the accident three fingers of the appellant were severed. First, the appellant was treated at CHC, Mauranipur, thereafter at Medical College, Jhansi. On the treatment Rs. 30,000/- were spent. The appellant was a v