NTPC-GE handled operations at Chhattisgarh boiler blast site: Vedanta chief

Nearly two weeks after Chhattisgarh power plant blast killed 25 people, Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal on Monday said the entire responsibility for the operations and maintenance (O&M) of the facility was entrusted with NGSL, a joint venture between power giant NTPC and GE.

“What weighs heavily on my mind is this: at our Athena plant, we had put in place the highest standards of safety.

The entire responsibility was entrusted to NGSL, a partnership between NTPC and GE, among the most respected and trusted institutions in India. The contractors, the teams, the technical expertise, all were theirs.

“It was on the strength of this trust that we had confidently outsourced the plant’s operations and maintenance. And yet, this unfortunate tragedy occurred,” Agarwal said in a social media post.