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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has announced an ex gratia of ₹15 lakh each to the adjacent of kin of the 10 persons who died successful an detonation connected October 8, 2025, astatine the Lakshmi Ganapati Grand Fire Works, astatine Rayavaram colony successful Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district.
Mr. Naidu, on with Home Minister V. Anitha, reviewed the study submitted by the two-member committee astatine the Secretariat connected Tuesday. MA&UD Principal Secretary S. Suresh Kumar and Inspector- General of Police, Elite Anti-Narcotics Group for Law Enforcement (EAGLE), Ake Ravi Krishna were members of the committee.
The committee submitted its study to the Chief Minister connected the origin of the accident. Of the 10 persons who died, six were women and 4 men, including the unit’s owner.
The study said that 14 workers were determination successful a azygous shed, successful usurpation of the information norms. The usage of robust rods led to a spark, triggering the detonation successful the accumulation area. Authorities confirmed that nary information regulations were followed astatine the site.
The Chief Minister instructed the authorities to behaviour regular inspections earlier granting, oregon renewing licences to the fireworks manufacturing units. He ordered that CCTV cameras beryllium installed astatine each the accumulation centers, and that continuous monitoring beryllium done done a centralised power room.
To forestall amerciable commercialized successful the explosive materials, Mr. Naidu instructed that each aboriginal purchases beryllium made done online strategy to guarantee transparency and accountability. He besides directed adjacent surveillance of the procurement and usage of materials utilized successful the fireworks production.
The Chief Minister said that unauthorised manufacturing centers, oregon those violating information rules, should not beryllium permitted nether immoderate circumstances. He instructed the officials to invoke the PD Act and initiate strict ineligible enactment against those recovered flouting norms.
“All fireworks manufacturing units indispensable run strictly arsenic per regulations,” Mr. Naidu asserted, adding that workers successful specified units should beryllium covered nether idiosyncratic security policies to guarantee their information and welfare.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ravi Krishna told The Hindu that technically the portion had dedicated sheds, but they violated the rules portion manufacturing.
He explained that arsenic per the information norms, the absorption was expected to usage antithetic sheds for antithetic purposes specified arsenic storage, manufacturing and filling the products. But they did each the activities successful a azygous shed. “Moreover, they are not expected to usage immoderate hard substances specified arsenic robust portion filling oregon manufacturing the crackers. Here, they utilized robust rods,” helium said.
