KOLKATA: Twenty-four workers fell ill after inhaling a heavy concentration of toxic gases inside the Durgapur Steel Plant at Durgapur in Bardhaman district on Thursday.
The incident happened within a day of 118 persons falling ill after inhaling chlorine gas that leaked from a cylinder at the Mumbai Port Trust godown on Wednesday.
Twenty-six workers and two technicians took ill after inhaling blast furnace gas during maintenance work at Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) this morning, a day after over 100 people fell sick following a chlorine gas leak in a Mumbai Port Trust godown compound.
Renewal of consent to operate under Section 25 & 26 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, and Section 21 of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981.
Economic policy since Independence has provided various benefits to small enterprises to ensure employment to workers who did not find work in the organised sector. These benefits provided incentives to small entrepreneurs to formally register their enterprises.
DURGAPUR, 1 JUNE: The last surviving leopard in Ramana Bagan Zoological Park in the Burdwan forest range died today (See photo). It was gasping for life and according to the veterinary surgeons supervising the inquest:
