Six worker’s died while 17 are severely injured in a boiler blast at Neyveli in Tamil Nadu.
This is the second tragic incident in Tamil Nadu just in 60 days. The blast took place on Tuesday morning at NCC India limited which is situated at cuddalore, distance about 180 km from Chennai capital of Tamil Nadu.
It is believed that the blast took place when they tried to light up 5 unit’s that was shut down on may.
The director of the power plant , R Vikraman said , ” The boiler was not in operation , we are trying to investigate the incident . Our 6 workers died while 16 are severely injured . Among 16 , six worker’s are regular employees while 10 are contract based employees.
The union home minister Amit Shah tweeted ,
” Anguished to learn about the loss of lives due to blast at Neyveli power plant boiler in Tamil Nadu.
Have spoken to @CMoTamilNadu and assured all possible help.
@CISFHQrs is already on the spot to assist the relief work.
Praying for the earliest recovery of those injured .”
Anguished to learn about the loss of lives due to a blast at Neyveli power plant boiler in Tamil Nadu.
Have spoken to @CMOTamilNadu and assured all possible help.@CISFHQrs is already on the spot to assist the relief work.
Praying for the earliest recovery of those injured.
While chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami announced 3 lakh rupees relief to the family of dead ones while 1 lakh rupees to the severely injured and 50 thousand rupees to the mild injuried.
This is the second fatal incident took place in Tamil Nadu in just 2 months .
. In may , 11 people died and around 1000 were hospitalised after the tragic gas leak overnight in Vizag .
NLCIL chief Gurusamynathan said the high level inquiry is issued to the company by PK Mohapatra , who is retired director of NTPC.
The company itself also organised a team for an internal inquiry committee.
Chinese app tiktok May organise a legal action against the ban. On Monday Indian government banned 59 apps including tiktok , UC browser , Shein , Club factory ,etc . Chinese app Tiktok is a video sharing platform which has millions of users only from India. Along with 58 others application Indian government banned tiktok , in charge of causing threat to national security as well as leaking personal data of the users.
From the law firm meeting on this matter one of the lawyer who have direct knowledge about this situation Said , tiktok is planning to speak to Indian government after seven days with claim that , tiktok is not misusing the data .
They also discussed, whether the government of India act as accordance to the procedure and if they had given them enough time to the company for their stand on this or not , was the key question discussed in the firm meeting .
One the lawyer also said that the company tiktok may took direct approach to supreme court if needed.
However the allegations made by Indian government is very serious which directly threat’s to national security. Under the section (69 A ) where government have the power to block online applications as well as online content if that platform is a threat to national security. This comes under the provision in information technology act.
It’s not the first time when Indian government banned or blocked tiktok. Last year on the issue related to cyber bullying , child pornograpy and adult content , Indian government had blocked the tiktok app. But just after one week the app was reinstated normally after approval from court.
The Railways on Wednesday formally kickstarted its plans to allow private entities to operate passenger trains on its network by inviting request for qualifications (RFQ) for participation on 109 pairs of routes through 151 modern trains, the national transporter said.
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The project would entail a private sector investment of about Rs 30,000 crore, it said.
This is the first initiative for private investment for running passenger trains on the Indian Railways network. It began last year with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) introducing the Lucknow-Delhi Tejas Express.
Currently, the IRCTC operates three trains — the Kashi Mahakal Express on the Varanasi-Indore route, the Lucknow-New Delhi Tejas and the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Tejas.
“The objective of this initiative is to introduce modern technology rolling stock with reduced maintenance, reduced transit time, boost job creation, provide enhanced safety, provide world-class travel experience to passengers,” the Railways said.
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The 109 origin-destination routes have been formed into 12 clusters across the Indian Railway network. Each train shall have a minimum of 16 coaches, it said.
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The Railways also said that majority of these modern trains are to be manufactured in India as ”Make in India” and the private entity shall be responsible for financing, procuring, operating and maintaining the trains.
“Trains shall be designed for a maximum speed of 160 kmph. There would be a substantial reduction in journey time. The running time taken by a train shall be comparable to or faster than the fastest train of the Indian Railways operating in the respective route,” it said.
The concession period for the project shall be 35 years and the private entity shall pay the Indian Railways fixed haulage charges, energy charges as per actual consumption and a share in gross revenue determined through a transparent bidding process, the transporter said.
“These trains shall be operated by the driver and guard of Indian Railways. The operation of the trains by the private entity shall conform to the key performance indicators like punctuality, reliability, upkeep of trains etc,” the Railways said.
Operation and maintenance of the passenger trains would be governed by standards and specifications, and requirements specified by Indian Railways, it said.
The entire process of handing over certain routes to private players will be completed in two parts.
The first started on Wednesday with invite for RFQs wherein private bidders will qualify. The second step will be Request for Proposal (RFP). The details of revenue generation and routes will be decided during the latter process.
In the pre-COVID times, companies such as R K Catering, Adani Ports and MakeMyTrip and airlines, including Indigo, Vistara and SpiceJet, had shown interest in participating in operating private trains, sources said.
Other players whose attention has been attracted by this are global majors like Alstom Transport, Bombardier, Siemens AG and Macquarie, they said.
Aimed at offering airline-like services to train passengers, the national transporter has said that the private players, apart from fixing fares, have to also provide facilities like catering, cleaning and supply of beddings to passengers.
Earlier this year, the Niti Aayog and the Indian Railways came out with a discussion paper for running 150 trains on 100 routes by private operators, envisaging an investment of Rs 22,500 crore.
The discussion paper titled ”Private Participation: Passenger Trains” has identified 100 routes, including Mumbai Central-New Delhi, New Delhi- Patna, Allahabad-Pune and Dadar-Vadodara.
Other prominent routes include Howrah-Chennai, Howrah-Patna, Indore-Okhla, Lucknow-Jammu-Tawi, Chennai-Okhla, Anand Vihar-Bhagalpur, Secunderabad-Guwahati and Howrah-Anand Vihar.
Each bidder would eligible for award of maximum three clusters, according to the paper.
The Railway Board had in October last year formed an empowered group of secretaries, headed by Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, to chalk out the modalities of the bidding process and take other decisions to fast-track awarding of bids to private players.
