Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has announced a Special Investigation Team for probing the 11-storey building collapse that killed more than 60 people in Chennai last week.
Tamil Nadu government will honour tomorrow personnel involved in the rescue operations at the site of the 11-storey under construction building which collapsed at Suburban Porur recently in which 61 lives were lost.
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will give away incentives and certificates to persons from various departments in commendation of their efforts in taking up rescue works on a "war footing" at a function being organised here tomorrow, an official release said.
The multi-agency rescue operations that commenced on June 28 lasted for a week and the rescue team pulled out 27 persons alive from debris.
Personnel from National Disaster Response Force, Police, Revenue Department and Chennai Corporation undertook the rescue operations.