National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) Chairman Gurdeep Singh on Friday said the committee formed to probe the Unchahar power plant explosion in Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli will submit its report in the next 30 days.
The chairman’s statement came two days after the tragic incident in which the unit boiler exploded at the NTPC site, killing 32 people and injuring more than hundred others.
While addressing the media, Singh said, “The committee formed to investigate the incident will submit its report in 30 days. The recommendations of the report will be implemented as a safety measure to the present as well as future units, and will be shared with other plants as well.”
On the condition of the injured undergoing treatment in Uttar Pradesh hospital, he said seven critically injured had been shifted from Lucknow to Delhi on Thursday night.
“We shifted seven people to Delhi on Thursday night, with the help of the Indian Government that provided an IAF plane, which helped in the shifting of the injured,” said Singh.
He added that about 48 people had been admitted in different hospitals in Uttar Pradesh and 12 had already been shifted to the national capital.
“We will ensure that they are provided with the best possible treatment,” he said.
Terming the allegations that no proper inspection was done in the plant as ”preconceived notions”, Singh said that it would be wrong to blame anyone and anything until the probe reports are presented.
“The commission on the plant was supposed to be on December 2016 but was done on March 2017,” Singh asserted.
He further said that they had conducted a thorough investigation of the plant.
“Our engineers, having experience of 28 to 30 years in the field, were also present during the accident,” the chairman said.
Stating that there were three competent engineers present on the spot during the incident, the chairman asserted, “Saying that everything was done in haste, would be a wrong thing to say.”
He said that the sequence of events and data log will be analysed, after which the reason behind the blast could be ascertained.
