{"id":33994,"date":"2017-11-04T09:29:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T09:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=33994"},"modified":"2017-11-04T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T09:49:35","slug":"ntpc-boiler-blast-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/ntpc-boiler-blast-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC Boiler Blast Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: On November 1st, 2017, an unfortunate accident has taken place in NTPC power station at Unchahar. The boiler blast, was in which unit of the Plant?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Unit 4<br \/>\n(b) Unit 5<br \/>\n(c) Unit 6<br \/>\n(d) Unit 7<br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (c) <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 1st, 2017, an unfortunate accident has taken place in NTPC power station at Unchahar.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">A sudden blast took place in boiler situated in UNIT 6 (500 MW).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">NTPC power plant at Unchahar is coal based power station.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Primarily Blockages in the flue gas pipe in the unit has been found responsible for the blast.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">A panel headed by executive director S.K. Roy looking into the cause of the accident.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Panel has to submit his report in a month.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has served a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over the death of people in blast.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved an ex- gratia of Rs. 2 lakh each for the next of kin of those who have lost their lives due to the accident at the NTPC plant in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister has also approved Rs. 50,000 each for those injured due to the accident.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is noteworthy that NTPC is Maharatna Company having a power generation capacity of 51,708 MW.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company comprises of 48 NTPC Stations (20 Coal based stations, 7 combined cycle gas\/liquid fuel based stations, 1 Hydro based station), 9 Joint Venture stations (8 coal based and one gas based) and 12 renewable energy projects.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, J&amp;K, Punjab, Rajasthan, Chandigarh, Delhi and Uttaranchal are the beneficiary state by the generation of power at NTPC power station at Unchahar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173184<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173189<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntpc.co.in\/en\/power-generation\/installed-capacity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ntpc.co.in\/en\/power-generation\/installed-capacity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: On November 1st, 2017, an unfortunate accident has taken place in NTPC power station at Unchahar. The boiler blast, was in which unit of the Plant? (a) Unit 4 (b) Unit 5 (c) Unit 6 (d) Unit 7 Answer- (c) Related Facts: On November 1st, 2017, an unfortunate accident has taken place in NTPC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-33994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}