New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has constituted an Inter-Ministerial Team to investigate recent deaths in Jammu’s Rajouri district.
The team led by the Ministry of Home Affairs to visit the affected village to ascertain the causes of deaths in 3 incidents in the past six weeks in Jammu’s Rajouri district.
In a statement issued here to news agency JKNS reads, the team will consist of experts from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers and Ministry of Water Resources. It will also be assisted by experts from animal husbandry, food safety and forensic science labs.
The team would proceed on 19th January and in collaboration with the local administration would also work on providing immediate relief as well as taking precautionary measures to prevent such incidents in future, it reads.
Experts from some of the most reputed institutions of the country have been arranged to manage the situation and understand the causative factors of deaths, it reads.
It is important to mention that, 16 people have died in the past six weeks, while the reason for deaths still remains unclear. (JKNS)
