What are the lessons from Telangana blast? | Explained

The story so far: On the morning of June 30 at 9.10, he rupt a explosion through Sigachi Industries, a pharmaceutical factory, and flattened a three -storey building in Pashamylaram on the skirts of Haydarabad. The asset on the stock market list estimated the death fee in 39 of the 143 workers during the explosion.

What happened?

A four -member committee is investigating the reason for the explosion. The committee is ruled by the scientist B. Venkateshwar Rao and CSIR-IICT Chief Scientist T. Prathap Kumar; In CSIR-CRI, retired scientist Syria Narayana; And Santosh Ghuge, CSIR-NCL, Pune. While investigating the reason, the pharmaceutical company issued a statement: “The accident was not caused by the reactor explosion”.

Sigachi Industries was founded in 1989 and was in the production of microcrystalline cellulose. This is nothing but refined wood dough or dust. This powder is shaped into tablets and serves as a non -reactive drug carrier. Wooden dough or slurry is processed in a spray dryer that comes out of moisture using hot air. After processing in this way, the wood dough becomes a thin powder or microcrystalline cellulose. It is suspected that this fine dust explodes in fate on Monday morning. In 1785, when a child working with flour in a bakery created a cloud of flour illuminated by lamp, he was one of the first ‘dust explosions’ in Italy. Two people were injured, including the child. There is a long recording of similar dust explosions in flour mills, coal mines and cereal silos that kill dozens of people in the world. Fire -judicial experts, Sigachi’deki explosion damage scale, raw materials used and related processes, considering the explosion of dust, he says. Initially, the explosion was suspected of a boiling fluid expanding vapor explosion, a technical term about the pressure accumulated in the reactor. However, this was ignored by companies and experts.

Was there a regulatory failure?

The laxity of the regulatory frame was sharp on the explosion day. When the fire department and emergency personnel ran to the site, there was no information about what they were against. State and Central Pollution Control Boards require a committee outside the factory facilities that list details about the pollution potential of the institution and factory operations. Fire fighting and disaster rescue operations are guided by this information. Green wooden or environmental display panels outside Sigachi Industries did not have Proforma environmental data that abandoned the clueless environmental nature of the relevant material and how the fire would basket. A challenging regulatory frame with periodic controls will ensure that information is available for a faster emergency intervention.

This event is approaching the heels of other serious accidents in pharmaceutical firms in India. In 2024, six people were killed in Sanggarereddy at the SB Organics factory, killed in Anakapalli in Andhra Pradesh on 17 August 2024, and two were killed in June 2025 at Parawada, Andhra Pradesh.

Chukka Ramulu CPM Party State Excelite Mmeber and Sigachi Indutry and Sanggarereddy in the Sangarereddy’s collector’s office in front of the government in front of Dharna staging the CPM leaders. | Photo Loan: Mohd Arif

What are the effects of the sector?

In the April 2025 report, an American investments and real estate company said: “Tahangana made a significant contribution to the landscape of India, which constitutes approximately one -third of the pharmaceutical production of the country, one -fifth of pharmaceutical exports, and one -third of the global vaccine production of the pharmacist, the pharmacist’s important investments. He analyzed the role of Haydarabad. Haydarabad, the highest concentration in the country, has more than 20 life sciences and medical technology incubators.

As Hub, TaLangana and India emerged as a power center in the pharmaceutical sector. However, security and quality concerns have entered into smaller pharmaceutical firms. The US is one of the biggest markets of the Medical Export of India, organized by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There are a number of standards that regulate identity, power, quality, purity and labeling and labeling with the United States Pharmacopesia-National Formula, Production and Usage Chain. In order to continue to be stuck in this snowy market, the standards must match.

Security is one of the main aspects of branding for the pharmaceutical industry that helps to create confidence among customers. Any looseness in any field of drug processing has a step effect for the sector as well as the company. It is not only the safety of a factory, but the distinctive features of stable and safe drug production systems and workflows. Two books, Real pill – the legend of drug arranging in India And Bottles Lie: The dark side of Ranbaxy and Indian PharmaDinesh S. Thakur and Prashant Reddy T. and Katherine EBAN chronic the regulatory gaps respectively and documented dangerous practices used by Indian pharmaceutical companies to keep the costs low and keep profit margins high.

What about pollution control norms?

Loose zoning and regulatory norms were assisted by the growth of the pharmaceutical industry of Haydarabad and TaLangana. Industrial areas must be far from the settlement areas. Ida Pashamysam was founded in the early 1980s, drawing some of the largest pharmaceutical companies away from Balanagar and Patancheru, which led to the first growth of the industry in Hyderabad. The initially isolated industrial area is now surrounded by settlements. In the absence of robust and reliable public transportation vehicles, workers’ colonies have emerged close to factories and industrial areas. This affects the livelihood and health of people in the industrial cluster and around.

Environmentalists have documented how tons of toxic chemicals and wastes are released into water bodies in the region. The Musi River continues to be very dirty with a study on the 22nd place in the world in terms of concentration of active pharmaceutical components. This high pollution is linked to weak waste water management infrastructure and pharmaceutical production processes. The chemicals in water are also associated with an increase in antimicrobial resistance.

What’s next?

The pharmaceutical sector has the potential to draw investments and create high employment opportunities in other places in Haydarabad and India. In order to take advantage of this potential, India should create a solid regulatory frame. Explosions and accidents are loud warning signs for industry and country.

Published – 06 July 2025 02:30 IST