Ghaziabad sewer deaths: UP CM Yogi orders inquiry, monetary relief

Four officers were also suspended for laxity in supervision in connection with the incident.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has asked Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam managing director (MD) to conduct an inquiry into death of five sanitation workers while cleaning a sewer in Ghaziabad on Thursday and send a report in two days.

A view of the manhole in which five workers died after one of them slipped in and the others entered one after the other to retrieve them, at Krishna Kunj, Nandgram in Ghaziabad, Thursday August 22, 2019. (Sakib Ali / HT Photo)

The Jal Nigam was also been asked to give ₹10 lakh ex-gratia to families of each of the deceased.

Principal secretary, urban development, Manoj Kumar Singh, in a letter to the MD, directed suspension of four officers of the corporation for laxity in supervision in connection with the incident. Those placed under suspension include a general manager, an executive engineer, an assistant engineer and a junior engineer.