Summary:
Chandigarh, Jan 18 (PTI) A nine-member committee headed by a retired IAS officer will probe the Dadam mining site accident in Haryana"s Bhiwani district, in which five people died and three injured following a landslide.
The state government re-constituted the earlier formed five-member fact-finding committee, which was headed by Bhiwani"s Additional Deputy Commissioner Rahul Narwal.
The new nine-member committee, which has retained some members from the previous panel, will be headed by retired IAS officer S S Prasad.
The state government, having taken cognisance of the matter, has decided to re-constitute the committee, a government order said.
The other members of the nine-member committee are Member Secretary, Haryana State Pollution Control Board; Deputy Commissioner, Bhiwani; Additional Deputy Commissioner, Bhiwani; Additional Superintendent of Police, Bhiwani; State Geologist, Department of Mines and Geology, Haryana; Sub Divisional Officer (Civil), Tosham; Divisional Forest Officer Bhiwani; and District Mining Officer, Bhiwani.
After the incident, Haryana Congress president Kumari Selja had demanded a judicial probe monitored by a sitting Supreme Court judge.