Chennai, July 6 (IANS) Authorities will continue the operation on Monday to safely remove residual ammonia from the St. Peter and Paul Pvt. Ltd. seafood processing unit at Kannigaipair in Tiruvallur district, more than two weeks after a toxic gas leak at the facility claimed 18 lives and left several workers hospitalised. District Collector S. Kavitha said the operation would continue until all traces of ammonia were completely evacuated from the plant. She assured that the same stringent safety…
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Chennai, June 29 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government has revived plans to integrate industrial inspection records across multiple regulatory departments following the fatal ammonia leak in Tiruvallur, while clarifying that a single unified inspection authority is neither legally feasible nor administratively desirable as each department functions under distinct statutory powers.The renewed initiative comes in the aftermath of the industrial disaster at a seafood processing unit in Tiruvallur, where…