Centre Accepts GoM

The president of Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) Dr Swati Piramal today unveiled ASSOCHAM's study `Madhya Pradesh: Shaping Up For A Better Tomorrow'. The study comprises an in depth sectoral watch and an analysis of inherent strengths of opportunities in Madhya Pradesh.

Milind Ghatwai

Two days after the GoM on the Bhopal gas tragedy submitted its recommendations, activists and survivors

One way to bring closure to the trauma of the gas tragedy is to build Bhopal up as a site of cutting edge clean, green technology, with special focus on life sciences, says R Gopalakrishnan

New Delhi: A fairer deal for victims has been worked out by the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal Gas Tragedy. It also tackled the issue of environmental clean-up. While a sum of Rs 300 crore will be set apart for the clean-up job, Rs 227 crore has been earmarked for upgrading seven hospitals including the Bhopal Memorial Trust hospital which was set up in the aftermath of the tragedy.

Advice To Replace Leaking Pipes Ignored
Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN

New Delhi: In what could be a callous criminal cost-cutting measure, the Union Carbide management had apparently brushed aside warnings about leaking pipes in the Bhopal plant needing urgent replacement and told the staff to keep the factory running by welding the damaged ones.

The recommendations of the Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy have left activists campaigning on behalf of the survivors disappointed.

While they welcomed the announcement related to enhanced compensation, they felt the GoM had been soft on Dow Chemicals by agreeing to allocate Rs 300 crore on its own for the clean-up of the site, for now.

Swaraj Thapa , Maneesh Chhibber

A Rs 1,500 crore package for enhancing compensation for the kin of those who died and those debilitated in the Bhopal gas disaster was today finalised by a Group of Ministers (GoM).

More money for those affected by the Bhopal gas tragedy, a giant clean-up at the site of the tragedy, and new legal action to assign corporate responsibility for that effort - these are the star attractions of the remediation and rehabilitation plan that the government will consider, as it tries to erase its mistakes of the past.