Top-level Panel Probe Stranding of Barges In Arabian Sea
Afcons Barges: The committee shall put up its file inside of one month (report)
New Delhi:
The oil ministry on Wednesday constituted a high-level committee to investigate into the collection of occasions resulting in the stranding of 3 vessels of a contractor of ONGC in cyclone ”Tauktae”.
3 barges of Afcons, a contractor operating on ONGC fields off the west coast with greater than 600 other folks on board, had been stranded in offshore spaces all through the critical cyclone.
“The stranding, drifting and next occasions have resulted in lack of a number of lives,” a ministry remark mentioned with out giving main points.
A committee comprising Amitabh Kumar, Director Normal of Transport; SCL Das, Director Normal of Hydrocarbons, and Nazli Jafri Shayin, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence has been constituted to analyze the incidents.
The panel would possibly co-opt another member, and take help of any individual it deems important.
“The committee shall put up its file inside of one month,” it mentioned.
It’s been requested to “inquire into the collection of occasions resulting in the stranding and drifting of those vessels, and next occasions.?”
“Whether or not the warnings issued via the Meteorological Division and different statutory government had been adequately regarded as and acted upon” can be seemed into via the panel, the remark mentioned.
The panel will even enquire if “the Same old Running Procedures for securing the vessels and coping with crisis control had been adequately adopted,” it mentioned including lapses and gaps within the techniques resulting in the stranding and drifting of the vessels can be seemed into.
