Ludhiana Gas Leak: National Green Tribunal sorts eight-member probe panel
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CHANDIGARH: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) took a suo moto cognizance of the Ludhiana gasoline leak which claimed 11 lives. The victims embrace three minors.
An NGT bench headed by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel constituted an eight-member fact-finding panel. It could be headed by the chairperson of the Punjab State Pollution Control Board.
The tribunal directed the Ludhiana district Justice of the Peace to pay Rs 20 lakh each to the next of kin of the victims who died after inhaling toxic gasoline.
The panel would comprise as its members, Regional Director (North), CPCB, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre (ITRC), Lucknow, a nominee of Director, PGI Chandigarh, a nominee of
NDRF, State PCB, District Magistrate, Ludhiana and Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana.
State PCB will act as nodal firm for coordination and compliance.
The committee would possibly meet inside one week and full its job ideally inside one month.
It could be free to work along with one other division, institution or explicit individual and undertake visits to concerned web sites. The committee could be free to function on-line or offline as a result of the situation would possibly warrant.
The Committee would possibly give its report again to this Tribunal on or sooner than June 30, acknowledged the bench comprising Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, Justice Sudhir Agarwal and expert member Dr A Senthil Vel.
The bench further acknowledged, “Meanwhile, the District Magistrate, Ludhiana would possibly assure value of compensation of Rs. 20 lakhs each to the heirs of 11 people who’ve died, deducting the portions, if any, already paid inside one month. The Committee would possibly level out the small print of people who’ve died and people injured with the extent of accidents suffered by them. It may recommend measures to be taken ultimately to forestall such incidents.’’
The subsequent date of listening to is mounted for July 13.
Following the incident, the Ludhiana district administration has launched Rs 2 lakh compensation each for the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each for a lot of who had been taken ailing.
CHANDIGARH: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) took a suo moto cognizance of the Ludhiana gasoline leak which claimed 11 lives. The victims embrace three minors.
An NGT bench headed by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel constituted an eight-member fact-finding panel. It could be headed by the chairperson of the Punjab State Pollution Control Board.
The tribunal directed the Ludhiana district Justice of the Peace to pay Rs 20 lakh each to the next of kin of the victims who died after inhaling toxic gasoline.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The panel would comprise as its members, Regional Director (North), CPCB, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre (ITRC), Lucknow, a nominee of Director, PGI Chandigarh, a nominee of
NDRF, State PCB, District Magistrate, Ludhiana and Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana.
State PCB will act as nodal firm for coordination and compliance.
The committee would possibly meet inside one week and full its job ideally inside one month.
It could be free to work along with one other division, institution or explicit individual and undertake visits to concerned web sites. The committee could be free to function on-line or offline as a result of the situation would possibly warrant.
The Committee would possibly give its report again to this Tribunal on or sooner than June 30, acknowledged the bench comprising Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, Justice Sudhir Agarwal and expert member Dr A Senthil Vel.
The bench further acknowledged, “Meanwhile, the District Magistrate, Ludhiana would possibly assure value of compensation of Rs. 20 lakhs each to the heirs of 11 people who’ve died, deducting the portions, if any, already paid inside one month. The Committee would possibly level out the small print of people who’ve died and people injured with the extent of accidents suffered by them. It may recommend measures to be taken ultimately to forestall such incidents.’’
The subsequent date of listening to is mounted for July 13.
Following the incident, the Ludhiana district administration has launched Rs 2 lakh compensation each for the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each for a lot of who had been taken ailing.
