Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The Union Carbide India Ltd. (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, which used to manufacture (among other products) the pesticide Sevin (carbaryl) gained world-wide recognition as a result of the tragic chemical disaster on the night of 2-3rd December 1984. The accident, involving a massive release of methylisocyanate (MIC) gas, resulted …
In May 1999, Greenpeace International, along with the Bhopal-based NGOs Bhopal Group for Information and Action and Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghatana, carried out an investigation of the former UCIL site. Samples of soil were collected both from areas once used for waste disposal, and around the former Sevin …
famida , 40, a resident of Bhopal's Jayaprakash Nagar was "anything but dead' for 14-odd years after the disastrous methyl iso cyanate ( mic ) gas leak in Bhopal in 1984. Two of her family members choked to death while running for their lives. She was left alive, but barely …
The Supreme Court (SC) has criticised the Union government for delaying the release of Rs 27 crore sanctioned to better equip the two hospitals at Bhopal to provide medical assistance to over 500,000 gas victims. The court directed the government to file an affidavit within two weeks detailing reasons for …
IT HAPPENED again, for the 14th time in a row. As a annual national exercise, one more dirge was sung for Bhopal. The Federation of Indian Chambers Of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) jointly organised the 14th commemoration of the Bhopal gas …
Who do you think was responsible for the tragedy? The responsibility lies with the management which did not adhere to the safety norms. There were no technically qualified personnel to look after safety measures. On the day of the tragedy, not a single safety mechanism was in place. I left …
the medical fraternity of Bhopal is groping in the dark when it comes to the treatment of the 5,00,000-odd victims of the December 1984 gas tragedy. Without knowing the toxic chemicals involved and their impacts, they are like the fabled five blind men describing an elephant. The results: each victim …
for the five lakh people who were exposed to the lethal gas leak in Bhopal in 1984, it has been one battle after another. Now they are fighting perhaps their last battle
DOCTORS Working among victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have recently demanded that a comprehensive study be undertaken by the Indian Council for Medical Research to look into problems relating to the reproductive health of the affected people. They reported that the women have complained of the inability to conceive …
twelve years after the devastating Bhopal gas tragedy, the 600,000 people affected by it are the hapless victims of another human crime: callousness. Callousness perpetrated by their very own Indian government. Callousness which manifests itself in its tardy method of carrying out medical tests for awarding compensation. In the time …
the victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy suffered a setback recently when the Supreme Court absolved Union Carbide India Limited and eight of its top executives including the chairperson, of the charges of "culpable homicide not amounting to murder'. Thousands of people were killed when methyl isocyanate leaked from …
the Indian Council of Medical Research (icmr), the government agency which carried out the investigations into the 1984 gas tragedy, resolutely clings on to the results. After the completion of their studies at Bhopal in 1994, the icmr brought back all the data painstakingly collected over the past nine years. …
In the ongoing battle for justice, the victims of the Bhopal gas leak disaster of 1994, won a significant case when the Supreme Court of India directed the reopening of compensation claims falling under upward category which were rejected by the welfare commissioner. The judges ordered that even those whose …
• Constitute a Central crisis group at the Centre • Constitute state, district and local level crisis groups • Set up a 24-hour functional control room at the MEF, and state and district headquarters • Set up an information networking system with state and district control room • Provide the …
THE gazette notification empowering local communities with the right to know any information regarding hazardous industries in India, is likely to be issued soon by the ministry of environment and forests (MEF). Ministry sources state that these proposed rules have received ministerial clearance, and would become operative from the date …
Union Carbide Corporation was under fire from 25 environment and human rights groups across the US, on the eleventh anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy. They demanded that the company should face legal proceedings in India on the charge of culpable homicide, as the "perpetrator of the world's worst industrial disaster". …
Cry justice An indifferent legislature and an impotent administration has forced the onus of defining the cost of lives and damages to the environment caused by industrial "development" onto the courts. THE justice meted out by the Indian courts to the victims of the Bhopal disaster is a tale of …
DECEMBER 3, 1994. The stage was set in Bhopal, again, for an army of people. Mediapeople. Activists. As for those who had rushed out of their homes 10 years ago to the day straight into the most poisonous mist the world had seen since mustard gas had ravaged the fields …
In 1961, this promise came with the Union Carbide Corp (UCC) visiting card. The small print added -- A hand in things to come. On December 3, 1984, UCC showed its hand. Thousands died and continue to die in well-documented agony and tens of thousands were maimed and traumatised for …
