[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The gas leaked from a storage cylinders kept in the water supply centre of UJS. Labourers and their families who were sleeping at the centre were rushed to a hospital after they complained of nausea. UJS constitutes a probe committee

A major accident was averted at Dehradun-based Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan (UJS) as chlorine gas leaked from storage cylinders kept in the institute’s water supply centre on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday. At least 24 people – most of them labourers who were sleeping at the supply centre – were hospitalised after they complained of nausea and vomiting while the UJS constituted a probe committee, on Friday, to enquire into the gas leak.

The chlorine gas cylinders that leaked were meant to be used to purify drinking water at the UJS. Following the disaster, fire personnel brought the situation under control by disposing of the gas cylinders into water to neutralize the effect of chlorine.

Those affected by the gas leak were mostly labourers and their families who were sleeping in the water supply centre located on Dehradun’s busy Rajpur Road. However, at least four rescue workers were also reported to have been admitted after they complained of similar symptoms as the other victims while trying to control the leakage.

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“The leak happened from some cylinders. Five labourers and three children first complained about vomiting and dizziness and soon a team of fire brigade personnel and the police arrived. Four policemen have also complained of similar symptoms,” Yashveer Mal, executive engineer (north circle) told mediapersons in Dehradun. Two UJS workers were also among those affected, he added.

Mal said that most of victims of the gas leak had been discharged from hospital by Friday afternoon but three children – whose condition is now said to be stable – were still admitted and “kept under observation as a precautionary measure”.

The probe committee announced by the UJS will look into whether or not adequate safety measures were adopted at the water supply centre, the system of storage of chlorine cylinders and also any possible lapse on the part of the gas cylinder supplying agency.

Mal informed that the committee “in coordination with engineers of other wings” will give its report on the reasons for the leak and safety measures being carried out, within the next few days.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]