Thiruvananthapuram: The Government of Kerala is making urgent arrangements to repatriate the body of geologist Aneesh Mohan, who tragically died in the NHPC hydropower project tunnel collapse in Sikkim on July 20.
Kerala Chief Minister V D Satheesan on Friday said that the government was making all efforts to bring back the body of Aneesh Mohan, who hailed from Pampady in Kottayam district.
The Chief Minister's Office, in a statement, said that Mohan's body, which was recovered late Thursday night, will be brought back to Kerala as soon as possible.
The statement said that the body will be sent from Kolkata airport today. The body will be embalmed at the airport in a special mobile embalming unit arranged following intervention by NORKA, the Department of Non-Resident Keralites Affairs, the CMO statement said. After embalming, the body will be taken to Kochi on the earliest possible flight. An ambulance facility will also be arranged to take the body to Mohan's home in Kottayam from the Kochi airport, the statement said.
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The bodies of all 25 workers killed in an under-construction tunnel collapse in Sikkim’s Namchi district, following an explosion of suspected methane gas, were recovered on Thursday, bringing to an end a nearly 96-hour search and rescue operation, officials aware of the matter said.
Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Tuesday announced an ex gratia of ₹4 lakhs for the next of kin of the workers who died in the tunnel collapse in Sikkim's Namchi district and ₹50,000 for the injured.
In a statement, the chief minister also announced that a special committee will be constituted to find out the cause of the methane gas blast which led to the collapse of the tunnel.
The workers were trapped inside Adit-3, a section of the 15-km-long tunnel of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited (NHPC) Teesta Stage VI Hydropower Project connecting the barrage at Sirwani with the powerhouse at Tarkhola in South Sikkim. The incident took place around 1 pm on July 20.
