Action taken report in compliance to the NGT order, February 10, 2022 (Maj. Gen. Harpreet Singh Bedi Vs Dwarkadheesh Haveli Builders & Others). The matter pertained to the operation of the sewage treatment plant of Dwarkadham Resident Welfare Society, Bhopal. During inspection, March 30, 2022 the STP of capacity of …
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Union Carbide Corporation, Dow Chemicals and others on a Centre's plea seeking increase in compensation to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia also …
The victims of Bhopal disaster and activists have slammed the government’s decision, to not intervene in the case against Union Carbide corporation in a New York court. Noted social activist and lawyer Gopal Krishna has written this letter to Maneka Gandhi, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Government Assurances, …
This Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) report of twenty years of data from 1988 to 2007 compares the magnitude and patterns of cancer between areas affected by the methyl isocyanate (MIC) leak and the unaffected areas of Bhopal. This report of twenty years of data from 1988 to 2007 …
Contrary to the claims made by Union Carbide Corporation — now The Dow Chemical Company — that the methyl isocyanate (MIC) which killed thousands of people in Bhopal in December, 1984, following a leak in its pesticide unit, was not highly poisonous, a report released by the Indian Council of …
Complex procedures for obtaining water and sewerage connections in urban areas are some of the impediments towards achieving universal access to the services. There are not many analytical studies undertaken to assess the procedures for obtaining new water and sewerage connections and the time taken for accessing the same. Higher …
This documents consists of comments and suggestions received by the Ministry of Environment and Forests on NEERI, NGRI and IICT reports related to decontamination and remediation of the Union Carbide plant site in Bhopal. Comments/suggestions received on the NEERI, NGRI and IICT reports related to Bhopal gas leak disaster.
Luck plays in strange ways. I was reaching for my scooter when the telephone rang in my office-cum-residence in Bhopal. I opened the gate, unlocked the door downstairs, ran up the steps to the first floor and opened the door to my apartment. Normally the caller would have given up, …
Has Bhopal taught the nation how to ensure industrial safety? Following the Bhopal accident, several pieces of legislation came into force, the prime one being the Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986. In 1987 a new chapter was added to the Factories Act, 1948, in the aftermath of Bhopal and the …
The group of ministers (GoM) has not made it clear whether Dow Chemicals, the company that acquired UCC in 2001, is to be held liable for the threat to public safety as a result of the toxic waste the pesticide factory dumped on its premises. It has only said the …
There is 1.1 million tonnes of highly contaminated soil at the plant site, according to an estimate by the National Environment Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur. It needs to be treated and safely disposed of. The report said up to two metres of soil will need to be …
The Bhopal question has one more angle: why was there so much public and media outrage over this 25-year-old issue? Why did the national media focus on this story, which till now had been consigned to the backrooms where only noisy environmental activists live? Many things, I believe, have contributed …
The Union Cabinet at its meeting held on June 24th, 2010 approved the setting up of an Oversight Committee in the Ministry of Environment and Forests to coordinate and monitor all activities at the Bhopal Gas Tragedy site relating to waste disposal, decontamination and remediation.
The gas leak at Bhopal inflicted enough injury on the victims. The injury mounted in the following decades. The killer corporation, Indian industries body, judiciary, the Government and the politicians added to that injury, by doing nothing. The worst injury came from the verdict that almost let off every culprit …
Days after President Barack Obama lashed out at British Petroleum (BP) saying he would not let them ‘nickel and dime’ his people in the oil spill case, a sessions court in Bhopal did precisely that with the victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster. After 25 long years the court …
Minutes of the meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) to examine all the issues relating to Bhopal Leak Gas Disaster, held from 18th to 21st June, 2010. The Group of Ministers (GoM) regarding Bhopal Gas Leak disaster was reconstituted on 26th May 2010 to examine all the issues relating …
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 …
Bhopal was a nightmare come true. "Bhopshima" was a befitting name given to it by the greatest living Indian jurist, Justice Krishna Iyer. Public angst required the State to act; the CBI swung into action and found the directors of Union Carbide guilty of a host of provisions of the …
