Good. Keep it up. Nice blog on our beloved Paradip ort. But most of us dont love Paradip. We want to suck the blood of Paradip for our personal gain. The purpose of the port founded by late Biju Pattnaik will not happen because of our corrupt officials and employees who want to rich everyday at the cost of Paradip Port. I feel ashamed being an employees of PPT.
Report by Amarnath Parida; Paradip: Director General of Police Mr Manmohan Praharaj came to Paradip for two day’s visit and reviewed the law and order situation in Paradip as well as proposed Posco site on Sunday.
During two day’s visit, Mr Praharj reviewed the law and order situation in Paradip on Saturday and also interacted with Paradip Port Trust officials and local police officials to know the measures being taken to retrieve the oil from sunken vessel ‘Black Rose’. He also inspected the marine police station and gave assurance to fulfill various problems of marine police station.
After 26/11 Mumbai incidence, state government has opened marine police station at Paradip to tighten the costal security in last year. The total requirement of the staff of a marine police station is about 88 while only 16 police personnel including six boat staff are working in marine police station. Similarly, this police station is running on rented house of PPT at Nehru Bangla in Paradip. This police station has small boat which could not meet the eventuality during crisis period. District superintendent of police Mr S.Debatta Singh also highlighted the various problem of marine police station.
Realising this, Mr Praharaj has committed to take steps to increase the strength of this police station and also gave assurance to provide big ship to meet the eventuality. On the other hand, he also visited the site selection at fishing base of Nehru Bangla for construction of building of this police station. Earlier, he also visited sunken Black Rose vessel with marine police officials to study the oil spill from the wreck. He also discussed with port officials to know the measures being taken to retrieve oil from sunken vessel on Saturday.
On the other hand, he reviewed the law and order situation of Paradip aw well as proposed Posco areas with local police officials. He also discussed with police officials of Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapada districts to check traffic congestion and smooth plying of cargo loaded trucks on Paradip- Chandikhole national highway. Sub Divisional Police Officer Mr Shantnu Das and other police officials were also present during review meeting.
Expert team to verify fresh spillage from sunken ship
Ians October 5th, 2009
BHUBANESWAR - Orissa will Tuesday send a three member expert team to verify media reports about fresh spillage from a ship that had sunk off the Paradip coast last month, officials said Monday.
“We have received reports from the media. We are verifying them. A three member team will go there Tuesday to verify the reports. We have also instructed the port authorities to plug the spillage,” said D.K. Behera, senior scientist of the state pollution control board.
Biplab Kumar, deputy chairman of Paradip Port, said: “The media reports of spillage and traces of oil found near Sandhakuda area is in fact far away from Paradip Port area. We have so far not traced any oil spillage near the Paradip coast. However we are looking into the reports and verifying them.”
The port authorities have awarded the plugging work to the Visakhapatnam-based J. Enterprises and Dives, which specialises in underwater repair and maintenance work. However the plugging work is yet to start due to rough weather during the last couple of days.
“We have already awarded the work to J. Enterprises and Dives. Though they have taken up the job from Sep 27, the work has been hit due to rough weather under the impact of deep depression in the Bay of Bengal. They will start the plugging work soon,” Kumar said.
Meanwhile, the port authorities have invited a global tender and a technical bid would be opened Monday and would be announced Wednesday.
The vessel under a Mongolian flag ran aground Sep 9 in the harbour area off the port in Jagatsinghpur district, some 100 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, with 924 tonnes of furnace oil and about 25,000 tonnes of iron ore fines.
Twenty-seven crew members were on board. All but a Ukrainian engineer, whose body was found 10 days later, were rescued.
The spot where the ship went down is close to the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, one of the world’s few remaining nesting sites for the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles. Wildlife bodies have already warned that the spillage will pose a serious danger to the rare turtles.
Good. Keep it up. Nice blog on our beloved Paradip ort. But most of us dont love Paradip. We want to suck the blood of Paradip for our personal gain. The purpose of the port founded by late Biju Pattnaik will not happen because of our corrupt officials and employees who want to rich everyday at the cost of Paradip Port. I feel ashamed being an employees of PPT.
ReplyDeleteReport by Amarnath Parida; Paradip: Director General of Police Mr Manmohan Praharaj came to Paradip for two day’s visit and reviewed the law and order situation in Paradip as well as proposed Posco site on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteDuring two day’s visit, Mr Praharj reviewed the law and order situation in Paradip on Saturday and also interacted with Paradip Port Trust officials and local police officials to know the measures being taken to retrieve the oil from sunken vessel ‘Black Rose’. He also inspected the marine police station and gave assurance to fulfill various problems of marine police station.
After 26/11 Mumbai incidence, state government has opened marine police station at Paradip to tighten the costal security in last year. The total requirement of the staff of a marine police station is about 88 while only 16 police personnel including six boat staff are working in marine police station. Similarly, this police station is running on rented house of PPT at Nehru Bangla in Paradip. This police station has small boat which could not meet the eventuality during crisis period. District superintendent of police Mr S.Debatta Singh also highlighted the various problem of marine police station.
Realising this, Mr Praharaj has committed to take steps to increase the strength of this police station and also gave assurance to provide big ship to meet the eventuality. On the other hand, he also visited the site selection at fishing base of Nehru Bangla for construction of building of this police station. Earlier, he also visited sunken Black Rose vessel with marine police officials to study the oil spill from the wreck. He also discussed with port officials to know the measures being taken to retrieve oil from sunken vessel on Saturday.
On the other hand, he reviewed the law and order situation of Paradip aw well as proposed Posco areas with local police officials. He also discussed with police officials of Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapada districts to check traffic congestion and smooth plying of cargo loaded trucks on Paradip- Chandikhole national highway. Sub Divisional Police Officer Mr Shantnu Das and other police officials were also present during review meeting.
Expert team to verify fresh spillage from sunken ship
ReplyDeleteIans October 5th, 2009
BHUBANESWAR - Orissa will Tuesday send a three member expert team to verify media reports about fresh spillage from a ship that had sunk off the Paradip coast last month, officials said Monday.
“We have received reports from the media. We are verifying them. A three member team will go there Tuesday to verify the reports. We have also instructed the port authorities to plug the spillage,” said D.K. Behera, senior scientist of the state pollution control board.
Biplab Kumar, deputy chairman of Paradip Port, said: “The media reports of spillage and traces of oil found near Sandhakuda area is in fact far away from Paradip Port area. We have so far not traced any oil spillage near the Paradip coast. However we are looking into the reports and verifying them.”
The port authorities have awarded the plugging work to the Visakhapatnam-based J. Enterprises and Dives, which specialises in underwater repair and maintenance work. However the plugging work is yet to start due to rough weather during the last couple of days.
“We have already awarded the work to J. Enterprises and Dives. Though they have taken up the job from Sep 27, the work has been hit due to rough weather under the impact of deep depression in the Bay of Bengal. They will start the plugging work soon,” Kumar said.
Meanwhile, the port authorities have invited a global tender and a technical bid would be opened Monday and would be announced Wednesday.
The vessel under a Mongolian flag ran aground Sep 9 in the harbour area off the port in Jagatsinghpur district, some 100 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, with 924 tonnes of furnace oil and about 25,000 tonnes of iron ore fines.
Twenty-seven crew members were on board. All but a Ukrainian engineer, whose body was found 10 days later, were rescued.
The spot where the ship went down is close to the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, one of the world’s few remaining nesting sites for the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles. Wildlife bodies have already warned that the spillage will pose a serious danger to the rare turtles.
http://blog.taragana.com/n/expert-team-to-verify-fresh-spillage-from-sunken-ship-187047/