Laxity found in ensuring safety by SAIL at Bhilai plant: CAG report

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has pulled up SAIL for "laxity" in ensuring safety measures which led to the blast at the company's Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) in 2018, in which 14 people had lost their lives. On October 9, 2018, an explosion occurred at around 10:30 am in a gas pipeline connected to the coke oven section of the plant in Bhilai town.