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Bhopal gas victims still waiting for adequate damages

The Central and the state govts, both led by Cong, helped then UCC chief Warren Anderson, who had come to Bhopal, escape to the US, says Vishwas Sarang

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Even after 33 years of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters to happen in India, notoriously etched in the national consciousness as the ‘Bhopal Gas Tragedy’ in which a leak of Methyl Isocyanate gas from Union Carbide plant in the December of 1984 killed thousands and affected millions, survivors are still awaiting adequate compensation.

Bhopal’s third generation, born after the disaster, is also suffering from ailments. While there are children who could not sit or speak or hear, many women were not able to conceive again. A large number of tragedy survivors last night marched, holding burning torches in their hand, to a memorial of the world’s worst industrial disaster. They paid homage to those who lost their lives in the calamity at the memorial statue in front of the now-defunct UCC factory.

Families of those who died and people who are still bearing the brunt of the ill-effects of the industrial disaster are now signing a petition, to be sent to the Supreme Court, requesting it to start hearing a curative petition of the government filed in December 2010 for more compensation.

Also, organisations working with the affected to bring the culprits to justice have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to remove toxic waste under the ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign. Toxic waste lying in the defunct plant of Union Carbide is yet to be disposed of.

The victims had not been duly compensated by US-based Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), now owned by Dow Chemicals, MP’s Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Vishwas Sarang said.

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