Twenty-five years after Union Carbide's accursed chemical plant spewed 42 tonnes of poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas, killing 8,00010,000 people, and debilitating thousands of others, a study conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found that toxic waste lying at the plant premises still contaminates the city's land and water.
WRITTEN for city administrators, these 3 books are meant to be handbooks which collate the facts of urban areas degeneration, the theories of a constructive approach to urban management, and
Lurking visions of a Bhopal kind of tragedy has psyched residents of Jamnagar into a gas-induced panic for the past four days. The cause of their paranoia is a mysterious gaseous smell that triggers
The chemical industry disaster at Bhopal on December 3, 1984 killed and injured thousands. Yet the gas leak was just the beginning of an ongoing tragedy. Seventeen years later, residents still suffer
Rahul Verma, a Canadian playwright of Indian Origin has scripted a play "Bhopal" that presents a fictionalised account of the events surrounding the gas tragedy nearly two decades ago that killed
Ten winters since methyl isocyanate exhaled history"s deadliest industrial disaster on Bhopal, action on toxicity remains agonisingly inadequate. India needs the technical knowledge of the Western world. Union Carbide recently made available its vast scie
The Madhya Pradesh government, by slashing taxes on LPG and diesel, has tried to give some relief to the common people. However, this decision has come too late. The government effected reduction by 3.02 percent on LPG gas and 2 pc VAT on diesel. This would bring down the price of LPG by Rs 10 and the price of diesel per litre would be reduced by 61 paise per litre. As regards petrol price, no change has been made in taxes. Thus the State government, by reducing the tax on diesel has not done great justice to its people.
This is a unique year for India s environmental movement. It marks the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy. It is also the 30th anniversary of the Chipko movement: women of the Himalaya hugged
Are the new industrial siting rules a boon or a bane?
Fifteen years after the Union Carbide gas leak disaster left thousands dead or ailing in life, many more Bhopals are happening ..or waiting to happen. Greenpeace's Nityanand Jayaraman, campaigning
Over the past few days, Jantar Mantar has been the venue of two protests against two of worst tragedies Independent India has witnessed. On one side of the road were activists
Many districts of the Madhya Pradesh are lagging behind in the target of installation for bio-gas plants. Out of the target of installing 13,500 bio gas plants only 735 have been installed till now.
The Madhya Pradesh government has sought Rs 22 crore annually from the Centre for operating rehabilitation and medical units specially set up for gas-affected families. A proposal of Rs 317 crore for
The oil and gas reserve of the country will last for only 18 to 20 years and only 30 percent of the demand was currently being met, Oil and Natural gas Corporation Dr Yogesh B Sinha has said.It is a
A new super-greenhouse gas has been discovered in the atmosphere, say a team of US and European scientists. The news of the gas --- called SF5CF3, or trifluoromethylsulphur pentafluoride-- was first
There has been an alarming increase in the birth rate in the gas hit areas in Madhya Pradesh, although the death rate continued to remain on the higher side as compared to the national average, but
With a view to killing two birds with one stone the BJP government has set into motion a plan to set up bio-gas plants at all jails in the State. On the one hand, this would enable prisons in the
The government, the judiciary and the people have to take action together to stop environmental damage. Laws have to be enacted and cases taken up on a priority. But laws alone will achieve little. If no action is taken on court orders, the land and the p
The gas disaster and several issues linked with it continue to present a disastrous picture, a good 14 years after the worst industrial calamity struck Bhopal killing thousands and leaving at least a
In this era of fuel and energy crisis residents of Barodia Khurd village has started using 'Gobar Gas' produced from cow dung. Now they do not have to depend on the erratic power supply or go the
