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Industrial accidents - government apathy

  DECCAN INQUIRER   e news  bi-weekly EDITOR: NAGARAJA.M.R .... VOL.22 .. .ISSUE...53……02/07/2026 Lessons learnt by government ? Visakhapatnam Accident: Time For Strict Action  — by E A S Sarma To Shri C K Mishra Secretary Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MEFCC) Govt of India Dear Shri Mishra, You are aware of the ghastly gas leak accident that took place at LG Polymers unit near Visakhapatnam in the early hours of 7-5-2020. Several persons in the vicinity of the accident site could not escape to safe places and got asphyxiated to death. Several others had to be hospitalised for serious health problems associated with their lungs, eyes, nose, skin etc. The impact of the toxic gases that got released from the accident site extended upto 5-10km from it. The disease burden caused by the accident will stay on for decades to come. In short, irrespective of the laws, the rules and the procedures in force, such an accident should shake the conscie...