Dadam landslide: Ex-IAS officer to head probe panel

Chandigarh, January 18

The Haryana Government has decided to reconstitute the committee formed under the chairmanship of Bhiwani Additional Deputy Commissioner to inquire into the landslide incident at Bhiwani’s Dadam on January 1 this year.

SS Prasad, IAS officer (Retd), is now the chairman of this committee.

Apart from him, Haryana State Pollution Control Board member secretary, Bhiwani Deputy Commissioner, Bhiwani Additional Deputy Commissioner, Bhiwani Additional Superintendent of Police, Tosham Sub-Divisional Officer (Civil), Bhiwani Divisional Forest Officer, Bhiwani District Mining Officer and the State Geologist, Mines and Geology Department will be the members of this committee.

On January 1, a landslide happened in Bhiwani’s Dadam, in which five persons died and three were left injured. To investigate the incident, the Bhiwani Deputy Commissioner had ordered an inquiry under the chairmanship of the Additional Deputy Commissioner.

The state government, having taken cognisance of the matter, has now decided to reconstitute the previously formed committee. —