Ratan Tata writes to Prime Minister reiterating his proposal that the private sector could contribute to create a remediation fund for clean up of the site.
The book is a compilation of articles written in 2005 and 2006 as part of a series about water and development. Most of the stories in the Asia Water Wire are the product of reporting on the ground by local journalists, many of whom attended a series of water workshops by the Asian Development Bank in the last few years.
Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata writes to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia saying that it is critical for Dow to have the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizer withdraw their application for a financial deposit by them against the remediation cost. This is because this application implies that the government of India is
pongamia buses: Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is running its 81 buses in Doddbalapur station (rural Bangalore), on a 10 per cent pongamia blend. These buses consume 6,000 litres
For more than a decade, a chain of evidence has accumulated that demonstrates that thousands of people living around the now-abandoned Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal, India, are suffering direct exposure to toxic substances from their water supplies.
Around 300 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, including women and children, were assaulted by the police on May 17, 2005, while holding a peaceful protest demonstration to demand clean drinking water.
The European Parliament appealed to India on December 16, 2004, to immediately clean up the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. A resolution adopted by the EU assembly recently "calls on the