Six worker’s died while 17 are severely injured in a boiler blast at Neyveli in Tamil Nadu.
This is the second tragic incident in Tamil Nadu just in 60 days.
The blast took place on Tuesday morning at NCC India limited which is situated at cuddalore, distance about 180 km from Chennai capital of Tamil Nadu.
It is believed that the blast took place when they tried to light up 5 unit’s that was shut down on may.
The director of the power plant , R Vikraman said ,
” The boiler was not in operation , we are trying to investigate the incident . Our 6 workers died while 16 are severely injured . Among 16 , six worker’s are regular employees while 10 are contract based employees.
The union home minister Amit Shah tweeted ,
” Anguished to learn about the loss of lives due to blast at Neyveli power plant boiler in Tamil Nadu.
Have spoken to @CMoTamilNadu and assured all possible help.
@CISFHQrs is already on the spot to assist the relief work.
Praying for the earliest recovery of those injured .”
While chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami announced 3 lakh rupees relief to the family of dead ones while 1 lakh rupees to the severely injured and 50 thousand rupees to the mild injuried.
This is the second fatal incident took place in Tamil Nadu in just 2 months .
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In may , 11 people died and around 1000 were hospitalised after the tragic gas leak overnight in Vizag .
NLCIL chief Gurusamynathan said the high level inquiry is issued to the company by PK Mohapatra , who is retired director of NTPC.
The company itself also organised a team for an internal inquiry committee.
