: Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 11:29 PM IST
Cyclone Tauktae: Probe panel to look into barges stranding in Arabian Sea; NCP Minister Nawab Malik says petroleum minister is answerable
Rescued crew members from the sunken offshore barge P305 look out disembark the INS Kochi naval ship after arriving in Mumbai on May 19, 2021 following Cyclone Tauktae landfall on Indias west coast with powerful winds and driving rain, leaving at least 33 people dead and almost 89 missing.
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Mumbai: The Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas set up a high-level committee on Wednesday to enquire into the sequence of events leading to the stranding of the ONGC vessels during Cyclone Tauktae. The committee will comprise Director General of Shipping Amitabh Kumar,
But the company did not inform about it, he said.
Bandgar said before they got know about his rescue, his family members kept crying till he called them to inform that he was safe, he said, adding his kin were coming to Mumbai to see him.
Meanwhile, the oil ministry on Wednesday constituted a high-level committee to enquire into the sequence of events leading to the stranding of three vessels of a contractor of ONGC in cyclone Tauktae .
Three barges of Afcons, a contractor working on ONGC fields off the west coast with more than 600 people on board, were stranded in offshore areas during the severe cyclone.
20 civil servants appointed to joint secretary-level posts
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20 civil servants appointed to joint secretary-level posts. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 14 : In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, 20 civil servants were on Friday appointed to joint secretary-level posts.
A 2002 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, D. Senthil Pandiyan, was appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of AYUSH for a tenure of five years, replacing Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Roshan Jaggi, a 1988-batch J&K cadre officer.
Nirupama Kotru, a 1992 batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, was appointed as Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor in the Ministry of Coal for an overall tenure of five years in place of Reena Sinha Puri, a 1987-batch IRS officer.