Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has assured that the state government will extend all possible help to the family of auto driver who died due to asphyxiation here.
He told reporters at the native village of Naushad after visiting his family today "financial help will be provided to the family. Naushad's wife will be given a job".
Chandy also announced that the bodies of the two labourers belonging to Andhra Pradesh who also died in the incident yesterday will be sent to their native places on government expenses.
The labourers who entered the manhole fainted after inhaling some poisonous gases and the auto driver who tried to rescue them also fell unconsciousness. All the three died while being taken to hospital.
Meanwhile, three officials of the contract company engaged for the job company were taken into custody this morning by the police.
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Meanwhile the contract company "Sriram EPC Ltd" also announced an interim relief of Rs three lakh to the family of Naushad.
Expressing the management's deepest condolences to the departed souls, R Sriram Raju, Executive Director, in a release, announced relief to the bereaved family members.
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The commencement of Vizhinjam port work with an estimated cost of Rs 7,525 crore is also significant considering the fact that the project was first proposed in 1991.
The project failed to take off for various reasons till the present Ommen Chandy government took it up after coming to power in 2011 and awarded it to the Adani Group.
Kerala also scripted a new chapter in 2015, when the Cochin International Airport became the first in the world to operate completely on solar power.
The 12 MWp solar power plant, comprising 46,150 solar panels laid across 45 acres near the cargo complex of the airport was inaugurated by Chandy in August.
With the commissioning of the plant, the airport became 'absolutely power neutral'.
However, due to land acquisition problems and protests by environmental groups, the Gas Authority of India's Rs 6,000 crore Petronet LNG pipe-laying project in association with Kerala Gail Gas Limited failed to make progress.
The project, among other things envisages supplying LNG to households and industrial units in Kochi besides other parts of state, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka through a pipeline across 900 km.
Similar was the fate of the Sea-plane project, planned to give a boost to backwater tourism in the state. Protest against the project was mainly from fishermen community and environmentalists.
