Summary:
Ranchi, Apr 19 (PTI) Jharkhand government on Tuesday constituted a high powered panel to investigate the cable car tragedy at Trikut Hills in Deoghar district which claimed the lives of three persons and over 60 others had to be rescued, officials said.
The committee will submit its report in two months and its chairperson can invite any expert of any institution in the country to help in the probe into the April 10 tragedy, a notification by Jharkhand tourism department said.
The four-member panel will be headed by the principal secretary to the finance department, Ajay Kumar Singh, tourism secretary Amitabh Kaushal, representative nominated by National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation and from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad.
The notification said that the ropeway machine operated at Trikut Hills by Jharkhand Tourism Development Corporation Ltd had stopped functioning on April 10 due to "unknown reasons" and the trolleys stopped moving.
This led to some of the trolleys to collide against the hills.
The operation of the ropeway could not resume after this and forced the district administration to take help from the National Disaster Response Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force, Indian Army and Indian Air Force to evacuate tourists from the trolleys.