Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Dec 11: Nearly one year back, complete re-wiring of Animal Husbandry Department was done by spending several lacks rupees but within a year now the faulty wirings are giving nightmares to staffs of the said department.
According to highly placed sources two months back there was a massive short circuit in the record-room of the Animal Husbandry Department.
According to safety norms in case of short circuit or any fault in wiring the Circuit breaker (MCB) should handle it but in this case the short circuit resulted in fire that too inside the record room. Luckily the staffs of the Department showed tremendous courage and removed the fuse and controlled the fire, otherwise entire office would have reduced to ashes on that day.
In the same department since yesterday, the works of installation of online UPS is in progress and due to faulty wiring yesterday again there was short circuit which damaged a computer.
One wonders that what was the quality of work carried out by the contractor and how the department released money without checking the wirings thoroughly?
Condition is not different in other government offices. The G B Pant Hospital has witnessed three short circuits in last five months. There was a massive fire in the Secretariat building recently.
This is high time for the Administration to order a full fledge fire safety audit for every government offices in A & N Islands to ensure safety of everybody.
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