The Union Cabinet on Thursday accepted all 22 recommendations by the Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy. These include enhanced compensation of Rs 1,265.56 crores, extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson and filling a curative petition in the Supreme Court.
The Bhopal mega-crime trial is over. The barbarity has ended in a light sentence, although the victims are countless. Eight officials of the erstwhile Union Carbide India Limited have been convicted and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment.
New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance government will explore whether the $470-million out-of-court settlement, arrived at between India and Union Carbide in 1989 in the Bhopal gas leak case, can be reviewed in the light of evidence that emerged in the intervening years.
NEW DELHI: Union Carbide's Bhopal plant was a polluter long before the 1984 gas leak, according to scientific reports presented to the Group of Ministers looking into the issue.
New Delhi: A road map to address the legal, medical, humanitarian, environmental and other aspects of the Bhopal gas leak disaster was presented on Monday by the Group of Ministers (GoM) to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He has called a special Cabinet meeting for June 25 to discuss the report.
BHOPAL: The report on the Bhopal gas leak submitted by the Group of Ministers (GoM) to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday drew mixed reactions from survivors' organisations here, which have decided to write to him to allow them a hearing at a Cabinet meet to be held on Friday.
The NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims have expressed serious reservations about the recommendations of the Group of Ministers on various issues linked with Bhopal gas tragedy that include enhanced compensation to the gas victims and the families of those killed in the worst industrial catastrophe that hit Bhopal in December 1984.
A section of senior Madhya Pradesh bureaucrats along with several NGOs believe the solution to the outstanding issue of toxic waste from the Union Carbides factory in Bhopal is to send it back to the United States. They cite the precedent of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) having ordered Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL)
Pune The report on Dow Chemical International (Dow India) site at Chakan, Pune, submitted by the special committee formed by the state environment department in 2008, is gathering dust with the state government yet to release it. The report was submitted to the state government about eight months ago.
