New Delhi: Centre wants it to be incinerated at Ankleshwar, Gujarat says already a huge backlog

A case between the Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh governments pending before the Supreme Court over disposal of nearly 350 metric tonnes of toxic waste lying at the now defunct Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) -- now Dow Chemicals -- plant in Bhopal for over 24 years seems far from being settled.

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Disposal facilities are not the final solution, but are good business as long as subsidized India generates 8.14 million tonnes of hazardous industrial waste in a year, according to cpcb. Of this, at least 350,000 tonnes have to be incinerated. However, the capacity of the tsdfs in the country to incinerate waste is much less

Deadline for disposing UCIL waste THE Madhya Pradesh High Court on December 16 issued fresh directions to dispose the toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. The waste is to be incinerated at the waste treatment site in Ankleshwar industrial area of Gujarat. The court directed the Gujarat government to dispose the hazardous waste by January 31, 2009. The waste has been

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Bhopal, Jan 21: Madhya Pradesh Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Babulal Gaur today urged the Centre to sanction the proposed Rs 985.75 crore for social, economical and medical rehabilitation for Bhopal gas tragedy victims.

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre and Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat Governments to resolve the issue relating to disposal of around 350 metric tonnes of hazardous toxic waste from the now-defunct Union Carbide India Ltd

Bhopal, Jan 16: The dilapidated Union Carbide premises would be handed over to the Housing and Environment department for construction of a gas monument after cleaning up of the toxic waste from its vicinity.

In October activists of the International Campaign for Justice for Bhopal issued an advertisement in the brochures of the India Chem exhibition. But the advert was issued in the name of Clean Chemistry Council, a fictitious European public relations firm, offering consultancy to corporations for improving their public image. The ad cited Dow Chemical as a pioneer in charity

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We appeal to you not associate with a company that has still not provided justice to the thousands affected in Bhopal
A group of children from Bhopal, suffering from disablities caused gas leak from Union Carbide in 1984, have appealed to a private trust here to disassociate itself from Dow Chemicals, which now owns the firm.

High court order on removal of the waste from the UCIL factory at Bhopal.

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