{"id":598,"date":"2026-04-22T16:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:24:24","slug":"death-toll-from-boiler-explosion-at-vedantas-india-coal-power-plant-rises-to-24-triggers-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/death-toll-from-boiler-explosion-at-vedantas-india-coal-power-plant-rises-to-24-triggers-probes\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Toll From Boiler Explosion at Vedanta\u2019s India Coal Power Plant Rises to 24, Triggers Probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A catastrophic boiler explosion at Vedanta Limited\u2019s Chhattisgarh Thermal Power Plant (VLCTPP) in east\u2011central India has left scores of workers dead and injured, prompting questions over boiler safety enforcement and operator oversight at privately owned coal plants in the country. The explosion, which occurred on April 14, has triggered parallel criminal, technical, and administrative investigations [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/death-toll-from-boiler-explosion-at-vedantas-india-coal-power-plant-rises-to-24-triggers-probes\/\">Death Toll From Boiler Explosion at Vedanta\u2019s India Coal Power Plant Rises to 24, Triggers Probes<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"898\" height=\"965\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"CoalPlantExplosion_India\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/coalplantexplosion-india.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A catastrophic boiler explosion at Vedanta Limited\u2019s Chhattisgarh Thermal Power Plant (VLCTPP) in east\u2011central India&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}