All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) For Probe Into Pipeline Blast at Kopili

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Condemning the NEEPCO blast, the All India Trade Union Congress, Assam State Committee (AITUCASC) general secretary Romen Das said, “The burst in the water tunnel that carries water at 12,000 litres/sec from the NEEPCO reservoir to the Kopili Hydro Power Project site led to massive flooding and a water fountain that rose up to several hundred feet into the sky at 6:30 am on October 7. It flooded the nearby areas near Umrangso, charged up a landslide in a nearby hill and also damaged the infrastructure of the nearby areas resulting in a massive loss.”

Four missing persons, including three employees of the NEEPCO-run Kopili Hydro Electric Power, still remain untraced. Junior engineer Robert Baite, senior employees Prem Pal Balmiki and Joy Sing Tisso and a contractual employee of the firm Raj Reddy went missing following the burst in the water tunnel.

“We demand that a high level inquiry is conducted over the cause of the incident, immediate rescue operations of the missing persons are undertaken, the workers who suffered loss should be compensated and the damage repaired”, said Das.

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