The BHEl administration has formed a five-member team to look into circumstances under which a portion of the Kasturba Hospital building collapsed on Friday. The district administration is still contemplating whether an addition inquiry is required.
The technical probe committee is chaired by BHEl-Bhopal general manager (quality) DK Dikshit, BHEl-Bhopal former AGM Venkatachalam, BHEl AGM PJ Reddy and RC Puram and PMl Prasad, AGMs of BHEl (R&D), Hyderabad. MANIT structure engineering Professor Nitin Dindorkar and DGM (SFX) Oscar Angel are also members of this committee, which will submit its report within one week.
District Collector Nikunj Shrivastava told The Pioneer that if BHEl has already included all technical members in the team, it will be find out whether the district administration requires addition investigation. A final decision would be taken after going through details of BHEl’s team, he added.
Besides the old age of the building, there have been several other factors responsible, including allotment of repairing contract to a non-experience person and non-inspection of the site by BHEl officials since repairing started. BHEl had formed a team of DGM Mukesh Shrivastava, Additional GM VK Singh and senior civil engineer AK Vyas to inspect the site but they never did.
The BHEl administration in a statement claimed Executive Director SR Prasad was in continuous touch with the CMD, BHEl BP Rao and on behalf of him, he announced a relief of Rs 2 lakh for the family of the deceased, Rs 50,000 for seriously injured and Rs 10,000 for persons with minor injuries.
In this incident, two persons died while 26 people were injured, out of these 5 are being treated in the ICU. One of the patients admitted in the ICU was already suffering from chronic disease and was in a serious condition.
During the rescue operation, BHEl received all out support from the State Government. Collector, Bhopal Nikunj Shrivastava himself monitored the operation till midnight along with senior police officials including IG, Police and others. BHEl Trade union representatives & members stood firmly with the injured and their family members.
Expressing concern, Director (IS&P), BHEl, MK Dubey and Director (HR), BHEl, R Krishnan reached Bhopal on Saturday morning and immediately rushed to the site. They visited the injured in the hospital and advised hospital staff and doctors to provide best possible care and treatment. They said that if needed, BHEl would make arrangement of their treatment outside Bhopal also.