Six people including two Deputy General Managers died at the Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh on Thursday.
Union Steel Minister Narendra Singh Tomar announced on Friday that a high-level committee will be constituted to probe into the leakage of toxic gas at the Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh in which six people were killed and over 30 others injured.
The Minister also announced a compensation of Rs 25 lakh for the next of kin of the five deceased employees, including two deputy general managers, and Rs 10 lakh for the family of
a contract employee who died in the yesterday's incident.
"A high level committed will be constituted by the union government within two days to investigate the incident. No SAIL officer will be inducted in that committee," Mr Tomar told
reporters after visiting the Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital and Research Centre in Bhilai.
The committee will submit its report within 30 days, he said.
"Those who will be held accountable for this, action will be taken against them. Although the state government has ordered a magisterial enquiry into the mishap and SAIL is also doing internal probe into it, the Union government feels that these would not be enough," he said.
"Taking lesson from such incidents the decision has been taken to constitute a high level probe committee to avoid the repetition of such instances," he said.
The Minister also asked Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) Chairman CS Verma to provide a job to on one member each of the families of those killed.
Those deceased have been identified as Deputy General Manager BK Singh (56), Deputy General Manager NK Kataria (56), master technician A Samuel (48), Senior Operator Yarad Ram Sahu (53), Assistant Fire Station Officer Ramesh Kumar Sharma (58) and contract labourer Vikas Verma.
A senior plant official told PTI that of the 24 persons admitted in normal wards yesterday, 21 have been discharged while the condition of 5 out of six people admitted in the intensice care units are stable.
The incident has partially affected the production in the plant and maintenance work is on to resume the operation smoothly, the official said.