INDIA STEEL SECTOR SAFETY STANDARDS STILL WEAK – MINISTER ADMITS
February 1st, 2014
India’s steel industry still faces significant safety problems, despite government efforts to make the sector safer, the country’s steel minister has admitted.In a recent statement to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, Beni Prasad Verma said in a written reply to a question that most accidents “occurred due to falls from height, gas poisoning, electrocution, burn injury and fire or explosions.”Writing on February 20 (Thursday), Mr Verma said that since 2011, two state-owned steel companies the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) ...
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