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Bhopal Gas Disaster
A change in scene
Issue Date: Dec 15, 1999
Five steps to recovery
Issue Date: May 31, 1999
SC CRITICISES GOVT
Issue Date: May 15, 1999
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 the delay. The court was responding to a public interest petition filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Sanghatan.
14 Years Later..
Issue Date: Feb 15, 1999
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 disaster on December 4, also called Disaster
Prevention Day or Bhopal Day. Entitled "Roundtable on
Bhopal Gas Tragedy: An Introspection", the meeting aimed to
The scars remain
Issue Date: Dec 31, 1997
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.
UCIL's end-game
@Richard20711534 Issue Date: Nov 15, 1997
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 -- to stall the dismant-ling of the Union Carbide factory.
Years of agony
Issue Date: Jan 15, 1997
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 taken to award the compensation.
Lesser evil?
Issue Date: Oct 31, 1996
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 plant.
Gassing the truth
Issue Date: Sep 15, 1996
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. Twenty-six epidemiological studies examining the effect of the gas on those exposed had been carried out.
ANOTHER CHANCE
Issue Date: Jun 30, 1996
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
claims exceeded the level specified
under the category were entitled to
appeal to the court. The cases of
compensation falling under category C and above had made available a meagre compensation of
Rs 37,000 per victim.
