Thiruvananthapuram, May 27 -- AICC general secretary KC Venugopal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to deploy a team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to mitigate the impact due to an oil spill causing a threat to coastal communities of Kerala.
The Liberian container vessel that sank off the Kochi coast was carrying 623 containers, among which 13 are reported to contain hazardous material, including calcium carbide, raising the seriousness of the situation.
Given the potential scale of environmental degradation and threat to coastal communities, the Congress MP sought the deployment of a high-level expert team of NDRF comprising specialists in chemical, marine, and environmental safety to the af...