The members of the high-level committee appointed by the Union Steel Ministry to probe the June 12 gas leakage incident at the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) has held detailed discussions with the employees at the site where the incident happened.
It may be recalled that six persons had died and over two dozen injured in the incident at the plant.The committee is headed by KK Mehrotra, former CMD of MECON comprises KAP Singh, former MD of Bokaro Steel Plant, SB Mathur, Director General of the Directorate General of Factory Advice Service & labour Institute in Mumbai, Soumitra Tarafder, Chief Scientist at the National Metallurgical laboratory in Jamshedpur, and Rajesh Oberoi, former ED in MECON as its members, a BSP press release issued here stated.
The committee members had visited Pump House No 2 on Tuesday where they apprised themselves of the incident and inspected the pump house premises.later, the members of the committee visited the gas cleaning plant of blast furnaces 1 and 2, and it’s control room. During their visit to Pump House 2 and gas cleaning plant, the members held detailed discussions with employees.
They were accompanied by N Bhattacharya, ED (Operations) SAIl, S Chandrasekaram, CEO, BSP, RK Nehru, ED (MM), YK Degan, ED (Works), general managers and other senior officers of concerned departments.later, the members of the committee visited Bhilai Management Development Centre wherein they interacted with employees of concerned departments to apprise themselves with information about the incident.