Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 1: Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Kavinder Gupta today directed the State Government to take measures for conducting a safety audit of all Army ammunition depots in the State in order to avoid a repeat of the incident in Maharashtra that led to death of 17 persons.
“Government, keeping in view the incident of fire in an ammunition depot in Maharashtra, should take steps to prevent such an incident by conducting safety audit of ammunition depots in the State,” Gupta said.
The issue was raised by National Conference MLA Devender Rana soon after the Question Hour ended. He demanded that Speaker should direct the Government to approach the Army for getting a safety audit of all ammunition depots in the State conducted.
Initially, the Speaker refused to intervene in the matter but Rana insisted saying no one from the Government was paying attention to the issue raised by him. “Nobody listened to what I said. You (Government) will wake up when people will die,” he said.
“When the bombs will explode then you will come to know. It is a serious issue and needs attention”, Rana said.
Rana initially raised the issue of Kanyala and Won ammunition depots in Jammu which are near the residential areas.
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