Lok Sabha Question No. 871 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-11-21
Subject: Deaths in Ship Breaking Yards
Ministry: SHIPPING
Asked by: Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED  QUESTION NO. 871

TO BE ANSWERED  ON 21't NOVEMBER,  2019

## DEATHS !N SH!P BREAKING YARDS

## 871. Shri RAM MOHAN NAIDU KINJARAPU:

Will the Minister of SHIPPING  be pleased  to state. fi(  q-k€{  q-fr

- (a) the number of workers  who died in the ship breaking yards in the country during each of the past five years;
- (b) whether the ship breaking workers are provided  any formal training and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government  is aware of the occupational  diseases  related to ship breaking and if so, the steps taken to provide safe working  conditions in this regard;
- (d) whether the Government has taken any steps for waste management at ship breaking yards to reduce its environmental impact; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR SHIPPING (SHRI MANSUKH MANDAVIYA)

- (a) As per information received from Ship recycling  yards, numbelr  of workers who died in the ship breaking yards in the country during each of the past five years is as follows.

| Year                         | Number of workers who died   |
|------------------------------|------------------------------|
| 2014-2015                    | 11                           |
| 2015-2016                    | 5                            |
| 2016-2017                    | 11                           |
| 2017-2018                    | 7                            |
| 2018-2019                    | I                            |
| 2019-2020(upto 30 1 0.201 9) | 1                            |

- (b)  Gujarat Maritime  Board  is providing 12 days mandatory  safety  training to each worker at their lnstitute and more than 1.4 lakh workers have been given training  till date. steel lndustrials  Kerala limited is providing  training to their workers regarding  safety at site, hazardous material and waste material handling and also to carry oul recycling without harming  the environment. Workers at Mumbai and Kolkata are employed  directly by the ship breakers and ports are not connected with imparting any training to them.
- (c) Governmenl  is fully aware of the occupalional diseases related to ship breaking.  Gujarat Maritime Board is organizing  regular medical camps and conducting  awareness campaigns  to avoid such diseases.  All the workers are mandated  to use personal protecltve  equipment  to ensure  safe working conditions. All activities  in the yards are undertaken under the supervision of Safety  Officers and Supervisors trained for this purpose
- (d)&(e) Ship breaking in the country is regulated  under the Shipbreaking  Code (Revised),  20'13 which contains provisions  for safe and environmentally sound ship breaking,  including handling  of hazardous  and non^hazardous waste generated  during ship breaking.  Gujarat  Maritime Board  has set up facilities for environmentally  sound disposal of hazardous and non hazardous waste, which is monitored  by the Gujarat State Pollution  Control Board. ln other ship breaking yards,  the hazardous and non-hazardous waste is collected, transported,  stored and disposed  as per the conditions  of authorization  issued by the State  pollution Control Boards concerned.