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Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: The report on the Bhopal gas leak submitted by the Group of Ministers (GoM) to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday drew mixed reactions from survivors' organisations here, which have decided to write to him to allow them a hearing at a Cabinet meet to be …
New Delhi: A fairer deal for victims has been worked out by the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal Gas Tragedy. It also tackled the issue of environmental clean-up. While a sum of Rs 300 crore will be set apart for the clean-up job, Rs 227 crore has been earmarked …
Bhopal: Aqueel Ahmed (29), a gas victim and resident of Govindpura, has damaged kidneys and requires dialysis thrice a week. He claimed the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC), which is supposed to provide medical treatment free of cost to gas victims, has refused medication. Because, hospital rules say …
Advice To Replace Leaking Pipes Ignored Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN New Delhi: In what could be a callous criminal cost-cutting measure, the Union Carbide management had apparently brushed aside warnings about leaking pipes in the Bhopal plant needing urgent replacement and told the staff to keep the factory running by …
The recommendations of the Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy have left activists campaigning on behalf of the survivors disappointed. While they welcomed the announcement related to enhanced compensation, they felt the GoM had been soft on Dow Chemicals by agreeing to allocate Rs 300 crore on its …
Swaraj Thapa , Maneesh Chhibber Finalising its conclusions on the Bhopal gas leak disaster after three days of back-to-back deliberations, the reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) today recommended a substantially enhanced compensation deal for victims that could cost around Rs 750 crore, filing of a curative petition in the Supreme …
Jun 22nd, 2010 -- LALIT SHASTRI | The NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims have expressed serious reservations about the recommendations of the Group of Ministers on various issues linked with Bhopal gas tragedy that include enhanced compensation to the gas victims and the families of those …
Jun 22nd, 2010 -- Rashme Sehgal | A section of senior Madhya Pradesh bureaucrats along with several NGOs believe the solution to the outstanding issue of toxic waste from the Union Carbides factory in Bhopal is to send it back to the United States. They cite the precedent of the …
A Rs 1,500 crore package for enhancing compensation for the kin of those who died and those debilitated in the Bhopal gas disaster was today finalised by a Group of Ministers (GoM). The GoM, headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram, that went into a whole range of issues, including relief …
Report with PM; Cabinet decides on Friday. P Chidambaram A Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to re-examine the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has recommended the central government give additional compensation worth Rs 1,500 crore to the victims, petition the Supreme Court for a review of its judgment that diluted …
Pune The report on Dow Chemical International (Dow India) site at Chakan, Pune, submitted by the special committee formed by the state environment department in 2008, is gathering dust with the state government yet to release it. The report was submitted to the state government about eight months ago. A …
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 …
The Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy, which held its last meeting here Sunday and will submit its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, will recommend filing of a curative petition in the Supreme Court to fix criminal liability, seeking extradition of former UCC chief Warren …
The proceedings of the Empowered Group of Ministers does not inspire much confidence that the lakhs of victims of the catastrophic Bhopal gas leak will get justice. In fact, it almost seems as if a second betrayal is on the cards. There are reports that the EGoM wants the Madhya …
The Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy is understood to have today decided to recommend filing of a curative petition in the Supreme Court to fix criminal liability, seek extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson and cleaning up the complex by burying the toxic waste. …
Conflicting recollections on Bhopal tragedy highlight need to make old government papers public Sanjaya Baru / New Delhi June 21, 2010, 0:54 IST I was on the last unaffected train out of Bhopal that night, or so I was told. It was the Dakshni Express from Hyderabad to Delhi. There …
If the Bhopal judgment results in independent directors/CEOs/plant managers waking up to their responsibilities, that can only be a good thing Sunil Jain / New Delhi June 21, 2010, 0:03 IST Ever since the Bhopal court gave a two-year sentence to those involved in the Bhopal gas tragedy, there has …
More money for those affected by the Bhopal gas tragedy, a giant clean-up at the site of the tragedy, and new legal action to assign corporate responsibility for that effort - these are the star attractions of the remediation and rehabilitation plan that the government will consider, as it tries …
John Elliott I was there in Bhopal on December 7, 1984, when Warren Anderson, then-chairman of Union Carbide, was whisked away from the stricken city to New Delhi and back to the US a few days after a lethal gas leak at his company
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Even as it pursues its case to make Dow Chemical pay for the clean-up of the Bhopal gas leak site, the Centre has decided to spend about Rs. 250 crore towards complete remediation. The entire process of decontaminating the one million tonnes of toxic waste at …
