NTPC power plant blast: Death toll rises to 32,

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.

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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.