Habija Biwi now begs from neighbours to run her household. She has two sons and a daughter but no income anymore.

Her husband Sajjat Seikh, a passenger of the Chennai-bound Coromandel Express that had met with an accident on June 2 last year, is still missing and so his family did not get any compensation.

Mafuja Biwi is waiting for compensation, too. Her husband Jamaluddin Seikh, a passenger on the same train, has not been located yet.

Railway officials said they now have no dead bodies from the accident in their morgue.

So, there is little chance the families of these two men from Madhusudanpur 64 Bari, Ramtanunagar village in the Kakdwip block of South 24-Parganas will know thefate of the two men or get compensation.

The two men were among the 12 from the village who were going to work at a construction site as masons and labourers. The bodies of10 men in the group could be located.

The Coromandel Express they were travelling in was involved in a triple train crash near Bahanaga Bazar station in Odisha’s Balasore, which left 292 people dead and over 1,000 injured.

The families of the dead passengers whose bodies were identified have got Rs 10 lakh each as compensation from the railways.

The Bengal government had announced an additional Rs 5 lakh as compensation.

Family members of some of the victims in the Kakdwip village said they have received Rs 15 lakh and a few have also got state government jobs.

“These (Sajjat Seikh and Jamaluddin Seikh) are the only two unresolved cases. The bodies of others were identified and the families have received compensation,” said an official in theSouth 24-Parganas districtadministration.

“There is no work in the village. I have to beg from neighbours to run my household,” said Habija Biwi.

Husband Sajjat would work at construction sites in other states, mostly Gujarat, for around six months. For the rest of the year he would do odd jobs in the village.

“We would survive somehow but had no savings,” said Habija.

One of her sons, who is 11, and her 14-year-old daughter study in a government-run school in the area. “Till now, everything is free of cost at the school,” she said.

After the accident, her brother-in-law had first given a blood sample for DNA identification of Sajjat. Since the sample did not match with any of those taken from the bodies in the railway custody, the authorities later collected a sample from Sajjat’s daughter.

“I have gone to many places but no one could help me,” said Habija.

One of the neighbours, Ebadall Seikh, whose son Abbachuddin died in the accident, said they help Habija and her children.

“We and other villagers give them rice, pulses and some cash,” said Ebadall.

Like Habija, MafujaBiwi, wife of the other missing passenger, JamaluddinSeikh, is in the dark about the fate of her husband.

Since Jamaluddin was an orphan and they do nothave any children, no blood sample could be collected from a blood relation for the DNA matching.

“I have been to many offices but everyone said it would take many years before Icould get compensation,” said Mafuja.

Like Sajjat, Jamaluddin would work in other states for six months in a year.

“He would earn around Rs 12,000 a month. Now, I work in other people’s houses but I don’t have a steady income,” said Mafuja. She now earns around Rs 2,000 a month.

A railway official said they don’t have any more bodies of passengers killed in the accident. “If the identity of the dead passenger is not established medically, compensation cannot be paid,” said a railway official.

Bapi Halder, the newly elected MP of Mathurapur, which includes Kakdwip, said he would meet the families and help them.