Guwahati: Debabrata Saikia moves AHRC against Pipeline Blast in Kharguli Area

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Assam Legislative Assembly (ALA) Debabrata Saikia moved the Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) with yet another complaint against the blast of a pipeline carrying water in the Kharguli area in Guwahati today.

Saikia today visited the site where the pipeline blast occurred. MLA Diganta Barman accompanied him during the visit.

In such an incident on May 25, 2023, Saikia lodged two complaints with the AHRC against the agency or agencies laying and maintaining pipelines.

In his today’s complaint, Saikia said, “In view of the above and in greater public interest, I urge you to take cognizance of the incident and take necessary measures to ensure the department/board concerned is more responsible so that the possible technical glitches can be fathomed and remedial measures are immediately taken as per requirement to prevent recurrence of such incident(s) and ensure safety to life and property of the public.”

Saikia said that again on January 2, 2025, a water pipe blast occurred, the latest since the incident at Kharghuli.

According to the complaint, “due to negligence on the part of the implementing agency, many accidents, minor and major, have occurred in Guwahati, including the death of a child due to the non-covering of a pit that was dug near the Assam Legislative Assembly Complex at Ganeshguri to lay a water pipe, etc.”

Saikia requested the AHRC to ask the department commissioning water supply in Guwahati (i) whether they had done everything as required under law and (ii) whether the questions raised by him in his two earlier letters regarding testing, etc., were followed.

He said, “As a life is very precious, any sort of negligence on the part of the executing agency/officials of the scheme is very unfortunate, and repeated instances of such acts signify a lack of monitoring or coordination, etc., on the part of the department concerned, and it should be dealt with seriously.”

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