Telangana forms expert committee to probe chemical factory blast

Telangana forms expert committee to probe chemical factory blast

Site Admin | July 3, 2025

Telangana forms expert committee to probe chemical factory blast

Telangana government has constituted an expert committee to investigate the explosion that occurred in a pharma factory at Pashamylaram in Sangareddy district, claiming 40 lives and leaving 35 others injured. The Committee, headed by an Emeritus scientist at CSIR-IICT, B Venkateswar Rao, will ascertain the causes and establish the sequence of events that led to the explosion. Meanwhile, the Sangareddy District Collector Praveena said 18 bodies have been identified and handed over to the families out of the 40 who died in the incident.

Telangana factory blast: 5-member expert panel formed to investigate causes, report due within a month

Roushan Ali | TNN | Jul 3, 2025, 07:22 IS

HYDERABAD: The state govt on Wednesday constituted a four-member expert committee, including senior chemical scientists and safety officers from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT) and the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, to investigate the cause of the major explosion at Sigachi Industries in Pashamylaram, Sangareddy, which occurred on Monday.

The committee has been tasked with submitting a report within a month on the causes of the explosion and the events that led to it, as well as making recommendations on steps to be taken to prevent such accidents. The committee must also establish whether SOPs for worker safety were followed in the industrial unit.

The committee comprises B Venkateswar Rao, emeritus scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-IICT, as chairman; T Prathap Kumar, chief scientist at CSIR-IICT; Surya Narayana, retired scientist at CSIR-CLRI in Hyderabad; and Santosh Ghuge, safety officer at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune.

Labour department principal secretary M Dana Kishore, who is a member of the five-person officers committee headed by the chief secretary, issued the GO constituting the expert committee.

The director of factories, Telangana will assist the committee, providing information and meeting any requirements during the investigation.

Meanwhile, the five-member committee headed by the chief secretary held its preliminary meeting at the Secretariat on Wednesday, deciding to hold its first formal meeting on Friday.