Anindita Dey / Mumbai July 22, 2010, 0:22 IST

The Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has filed an affidavit in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur for entrusting Dow Chemicals, the present owner of Union Carbide, with the entire cost of remediation efforts towards detoxifying the areas around Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) in Bhopal.