There was a gas leak in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant late on Monday night, around 11 p.m. or so, resulting in the hospitalisation of 11 employees.

Three people were killed and one person has been reported missing in the fire accident at IOC at Hazira in Surat on Saturday noon.

CPCB funded this project to IITR, Lucknow vide letter No. A-14011/1/2011- Mon/S870dated13/10/2011to carry out the analysis of groundwater, soil and sub-soil samples from UCIL, Bhopal premises and in the near by vicinity with particular reference to some selected physico-chemical parameters heavy metals and organics.

At least 88 labourers working in different big industries in the State died in accidents during the last two years, the Assembly was informed on Tuesday.

he Supreme Court, in its fi nal order of October 1991, upheld the compensation settlement with Union Carbide which made the Government of India liable for any shortfall in compensation or any new claims from the Bhopal gas victims. Following this order the Indian Council of Medical Research disbanded its medical esearch on the long-term medical effects of the disaster. A recent Supreme Court order directs the ICMR to resume that research, but the question that looms is why the ICMR abdicated its ethical mandate and allowed its subordination to a political diktat.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF STEEL
RAJYA SABHA
QUESTION NO 1506
ANSWERED ON 06.12.2012
Fire accident at RINL

1506 DR. T.N. SEEMA

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