BERHAMPUR: The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) was totally unprepared and callous towards emergencies that may emerge due to leakage of hazardous chlorine gas, felt the authorities of the Orissa's State Pollution Control Board (SPCB).
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.
BERHAMPUR: With Bhopal gas leak case fresh in mind, panic gripped Berhampur on Monday after chlorine gas leaked from a cylinder at a Public Health department store. At least 50 persons were affected and 35 treated in hospital.
The leak was stopped by a team of experts from Jayshree Chemicals, which supplies chlorine to Ganjam town for water purification, after eight hours.
Shock, horror, outrage. Those were the dominant reactions when the world woke up to the nightmare of Bhopal on that December morning in 1984. Over 26 years later, those were again the dominant reactions following the judgement of the Bhopal district court last week which awarded a shamefully light two-year sentence to the seven accused in the world's worst industrial disaster.
CHINSURAH, 8 JUNE: A day after the country saw the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict being delivered, villagers in Haripal block of Hooghly got quite a scare, after many fell ill, alleging that gas emitted from a local factory, Himadri Chemicals, led to the incident.
Bhavnagar: Working conditions at Alang ship-breaking yard were proved hazardous yet again on Sunday when a worker died of suffocation while dismantling a ship anchored at Sisodiya Ship Breaking Yard at Alang on Sunday. The incident also left one labourer seriously injured.
FIVE persons, including three brothers, were asphyxiated to death after poisonous gas emanated from a chemical tank which they were cleaning at a leather factory at Vaniyambadi on Friday.
Parbatpur (Bokaro), April 4: Kitchen fires have literally stopped burning in Fatehpur of Chandankyari block.
Villagers have been surviving on dry gram and puffed rice for the last few days as the presence of coal-bed methane in their homes has made it impossible to strike a match indoors for fear of burning the house down.
