By VIVEK RAGHUVANSHI
NEW DELHI — Even as Indian authorities are saying that the March accident at the building facility of the country’s homemade nuclear submarines was “an industrial accident,” sources in the Indian Navy said lack of a well spelled-out administrative command between different wings at Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO’s) Ship Building Centre (SBC) at Visakhapatnam is leading to poor monitoring of a variety of jobs, the bulk of which are being contracted and later subcontracted.
An employee of domestic, private-sector Larsen & Toubro (L&T) was killed when the lid of a pressure tank to be installed on a follow-up nuclear submarine of the Arihant class, code named S-3, blew off at the facility.
A statement by the Indian Ministry of Defense (MoD) later said, “The accident is in no way related with any nuclear-related activity. The submarines are safe, and the accident does not adversely affect the project activities or the activities of Indian Navy or Defense Research and Development Organization.”
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