Govt, OIL to compensate all affected in Assam gas well tragedy
Tinsukia (Assam): Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said people affected in Oil India’s Baghjan gas well tragedy will be “adequately” compensated.
Pradhan reached Assam on Saturday to review the situation arising after a blowout and successive inferno that killed two persons.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who accompanied Pradhan to the disaster site and relief camps , said a model and a veterinary hospital, a higher secondary school and a skill development centre will be set up in Baghjan. “Today I announce that the Baghajan embankment will be constructed at a cost of Rs 27 crore,” he said.
