Now Reading: PU to form departmental safety committees after scholar’s electrocution
-
01
PU to form departmental safety committees after scholar’s electrocution
PU to form departmental safety committees after scholar’s electrocution
Panjab University is setting up departmental safety committees after research scholar Jyoti (28) was electrocuted near a girls' hostel on July 28. Each department will form a three-member panel of faculty, staff,…
The Story in Brief
Panjab University is setting up departmental safety committees after research scholar Jyoti (28) was electrocuted near a girls' hostel on July 28. Each department will form a three-member panel of faculty, staff, and students to inspect buildings, labs, and facilities, with chairpersons submitting monthly action reports. The move follows a directive from Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan, the university's chancellor, according to Hindustan Times.
The university is also reinstating its suspended executive engineer and subdivisional officer, citing that the postmortem report did not specify their involvement in the death. A magisterial inquiry ordered into the incident is yet to submit its findings. Meanwhile, the Dean has circulated UT administration guidelines on safe electricity use during monsoons.
The Indian Opinion
The Vice Chancellor's safety committees are a predictable administrative reflex, but the real test is whether they will be more than a paper exercise. The suspended engineers are being reinstated because their role in the death was not clinically confirmed, yet no one has explained why safety lapses were allowed to fester. The magisterial inquiry's final report will tell us if this tragedy leads to genuine reform or just another file in the registry.
Source: hindustantimes.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above.
