Indore:
Police have registered an FIR against the Hyderabad based waste management company Ramky Enviro Engineers in Indore for negligence.
Six workers employed by the Madhya Pradesh Waste Management Project, which is run by the company, were exposed to toxic fumes from a drum containing paint sludge. They were taken to a hospital in Indore and are now out of danger.
There was a toxic scare at the incinerator facility in Pitampur area of the city that was being readied to receive 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union carbide plant in Bhopal.
"We had put on mask but the gas leak was very strong," said Lokesh, worker.
But Assistant Manager of Ramky Enviro Engineers, R Tulsi defended his firm, "Chemical was not that poisonous."
The incident has nothing to do with any toxic waste from Bhopal. The facility set up three years ago at a cost of Rs 20 crore, is meant to dispose industrial waste from all over Madhya Pradesh.
The adjoining facility, a secured land fill, houses 80 tonnes of 'lime sludge' that came from the Bhopal plant.
While that may have nothing to do with the toxic exposure, the incident has come as another wake-up call for a state already scarred by the world's worst industrial disaster.
Six workers employed by the Madhya Pradesh Waste Management Project, which is run by the company, were exposed to toxic fumes from a drum containing paint sludge. They were taken to a hospital in Indore and are now out of danger.
There was a toxic scare at the incinerator facility in Pitampur area of the city that was being readied to receive 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union carbide plant in Bhopal.
"We had put on mask but the gas leak was very strong," said Lokesh, worker.
But Assistant Manager of Ramky Enviro Engineers, R Tulsi defended his firm, "Chemical was not that poisonous."
The incident has nothing to do with any toxic waste from Bhopal. The facility set up three years ago at a cost of Rs 20 crore, is meant to dispose industrial waste from all over Madhya Pradesh.
The adjoining facility, a secured land fill, houses 80 tonnes of 'lime sludge' that came from the Bhopal plant.
While that may have nothing to do with the toxic exposure, the incident has come as another wake-up call for a state already scarred by the world's worst industrial disaster.
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