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AMARAVATI:The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday constituted a five-member High-Power Committee to probe the leakage of styrene gas from the LG Polymer plant at RR Venkatapuram in Visakhapatnam on Thursday,
As per reports a GO was issued by Chief Secretary Nilam Sawhney to this effect. As per the orders the committee will be headed by Neeraj Kumar Prasad, Special Chief Secretary (EFS and T department) and the members will include Karikal Valaven, Special Chief Secretary (Industries), Vinay Chand -Visakhapatnam district collector, RK Meena -Visakhapatnam Commissioner of Police as members and Vivek Yadav Member Secretary, AP Pollution Control Board as member convenor.
Meanwhile an expert committee headed by Andhra Pradesh Special Chief Secretary, Industries & Commerce, Karikal Valaven has started a detailed inquiry over the Visakhapatnam LG Polymer gas leak accident.
The gas leak had left 12 people dead and more than 200 people ill after they inhaled the styrene gas. The people were staying in the RR Venkatapuram village and four other villages in the vicinity of the LG Polymers chemical plant near Visakhapatnam.
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