New Dehli:The death toll has risen to 32, in the blast at NTPC’s Unchahar plant in Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli.reports said on Friday.
The media reports said that the accident site indicated that safety norms were violated.
The reports point to a practice that is regularly resorted to across coal-fired plants in the country. The practice involves de-choking the bottom hopper — the funnel-shaped bottom end of the boiler — by using rods to push out ash clinkers while the boiler is in operation, in violation of safety norms. This very exercise seems to have gone horribly wrong at Unchahar.
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