{"id":401288,"date":"2021-02-20T11:28:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T05:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401288"},"modified":"2021-02-20T11:28:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T05:58:24","slug":"oil-india-ltd-cannot-disown-responsibility-on-fire-incident-in-assams-baghjan-oil-well-ngt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-india-ltd-cannot-disown-responsibility-on-fire-incident-in-assams-baghjan-oil-well-ngt\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil India Ltd cannot disown responsibility on fire incident in Assam&#8217;s Baghjan oil well: NGT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil India Ltd NSE 1.27 % (OIL) cannot disown its responsibility on the fire incident in Assam&#8217;s Baghjan oil well by shifting the blame on the contractor, the National Green Tribunal Friday said while constituting a fresh six-member committee to fix responsibility for the failures of the concerned individuals in the present incident. Well number 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district, had been spewing gas uncontrollably, and it caught fire on June 9 last year, killing two of OIL&#8221;s fire fighters at the site.<\/p>\n<p>A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice A K Goel said it &#8220;prima facie&#8221; agrees that there was failure of the OIL in taking safety precautions and there is need for ensuring that such incidents do not recur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil India Ltd NSE 1.27 % (OIL) cannot disown its responsibility on the fire incident in Assam&#8217;s Baghjan oil well by shifting the blame on the contractor, the National Green Tribunal Friday said while constituting a fresh six-member committee to fix responsibility for the failures of the concerned individuals in the present incident. Well number 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district, had been spewing gas uncontrollably, and it caught fire on June 9 last year, killing two of OIL&#8221;s fire fighters at the site. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice A K Goel said it &#8220;prima facie&#8221; agrees that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}