APPCB officials clueless on gas leak in pharma city
The Hindu
‘We can come to a conclusion only after a detailed investigation’
A day after two contract workers died after inhaling some kind of poisonous gas at the effluent treatment plant in Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City (JNPC), Parawada, the police, the management and the experts from the Department of Factories and the AP Pollution Control Board, are yet to come out with a plausible explanation.
Speaking to The Hindu, T. Rajendra Reddy, Joint Chief Environmental Engineer of the AP PCB, said that the incident looks mysterious, as such things should not happen in a treatment plant. But we can come to a conclusion only after a detailed investigation, which includes getting facts from the autopsy report, he said.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.