Praja Arogya Vedika (PAV) has appealed to the Chief Minister to make public the report of the Sub-Committee on Safety, compiled on the recommendation of High Power Committee, which was constituted by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, following the LG Polymers styrene vapour leakage on May 7, 2020.
In a letter to Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the PAV general secretary T. Kameswara Rao noted that even though two years had passed after the LG Polymers incident, industrial accidents were occurring frequently in Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli districts, which have a large number of industries. Some of the other districts like West Godavari, Nellore, Chittoor, Tirupathi and Kurnool have industries, which deal with high quantities of harmful chemicals.
The High Power committee had recommended several short-term and long-term actions, which should be taken up by the State government. The Sub-Committee, which was constituted, with the Joint Collector as chairperson, to study and report the safety measures undertaken on a monthly basis.
