The Rs1,500 crore package was "too little", Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan convenor Abdul Jabbar said, adding the GoM on June 21 had considered just 42,208 victims eligible for the enhanced compensation.
Terming the group of ministers' (GoM) relief package to the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy as a "betrayal", seven NGOs working for them today said they will hold a protest in New Delhi tomorrow.
"The relief package has betrayed the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy and we are going to stage a protest tomorrow in New Delhi," Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan convenor Abdul Jabbar told reporters in Bhopal.
The Rs1,500 crore package was "too little", he said, adding the GoM on June 21 had considered just 42,208 victims eligible for the enhanced compensation.
Jabbar said the monetary assistance recommended by the ministers' panel will go to less than 10% of the people exposed to the toxic gases that leaked from now defunct Union Carbide's plant in the city in December 1984.
"The GoM has based its decision on flawed system of damage assessment that was designed to reduce the death and injury (liabilities) caused by Union Carbide Corp," he added.
The GoM has made no recommendations regarding review of death claims or registration of toxic gas-related death claims after 1997, when such registration was arbitrarily stopped, Jabbar stated.
The panel has denied any additional compensation to 5,21,000 (91%) survivors who received a paltry sum of Rs25,000 each for life-long health complications, he said.
The GoM had failed to recommend action for extraditing the authorised representatives of Union Carbide Corpn, USA and Union Carbide Eastern, Hong Kong who had escaped trial in the gas leak case, Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi
Sangharsh Morcha president Balkrishna Namdeo said.
Members of other NGOs - Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmcahri, Bhopal Gas Peedit Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti, Bhopal Group for Information and Action and Children Against Dow - Carbide also criticised the GoM over the relief package.
They said the amount was too little and covered less than 10% of the victims.
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