MUMBAI: Three executive managers of ONGC have been suspended as a member of a high tech committee inquiry into the month’s barge tragedy that claimed the lives of 86 employees, even as a institution of ONGC officers has required that the decision will be revoked.
In its letter dated June 2the Association of Scientific and Technical Officers (ASTO) said in the event the choice isn’t reversed by June 15, it could be”restricted to take additional actions”.
The high-tech committee was founded from the ministry of oil and natural gas to stunt the catastrophe, the largest off Bombay High, because of Cyclone Tauktae.
Eighty-six individuals died in the accident, such as 75 out of barge P-305 and 11 in the tugboat Varaprada.
The committee chose on the grounds of technical proof which mature ONGC officials were supposedly responsible for the episode also between barges SS-3 along with Gal Constructor, along with drilling rig Sagar Bhushan.
Meanwhile, the barge master Agnelo S Rebello of Gal Constructor which conducted blamed equally Afconsand also the company that chartered the ships to ONGC, also ONGC.
ASTO has required the committee and ONGC debar Afcons and its partners out of work in ONGC with instant impact and criminal proceedings be initiated against them.
“The simple fact is that 22 barges were functioning for ONGC throughout this interval and19 of these stuck to the ONGC weather but the 3 barges belonging to M/s AFCONS didn’t.
M/s AFCONS didn’t adhere to the needs of this Marine Operations guide, encrypting files, and warnings issued by ONGC.
In addition they gave false info to ONGC which they’ve taken sufficient precaution according to ONGC’s advisory,” the letter said.
The Indian Navy and Coast Guard had rescued 628 employees from various places in Arabian Sea off Mumbai.
An origin from ASTO told TOI:”The actions needed to suspend the 3 senior officers was incorrect.
It’s the vessel charter firm, the boat operator, that needs to be held accountable for the accident later it failed to adhere to the normal operating procedure (SoP).
Action needs to be initiated from the builder Afcons and its partners because their culpability is based in their own failure to stick to this current weather warnings supplied by ONGC and also for providing false compliance accounts of the exact same into ONGC.
The suspended senior officers were in control of drilling, executive and safety mining, respectively” In response to this correspondence, an Afcons spokesperson stated,”The correspondence makes many unsubstantiated and factually incorrect allegations from Afcons, all which can be belied by the voluminous documentary evidence on record which Afcons has submitted to the HLC (high-level committee) which is exploring this event.
The correspondence has been shrouded with misinformed allegations, such as the barges chartered by Afcons failed to depart the usable area at time.
It’s well-known and reported that barges charted by Afcons were taught to demobilise in the work place and failed by May 14/15, well before the start of the complete fury of both Cyclone Tauktae.”