Over 100 survivors of the Union Carbide disaster and people exposed to ground water contaminated by Union Carbide’s hazardous waste, today demonstrated at the office of the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board demanding explanation of its role in the toxic exposure and injury of six workers at the MP Waste Management Facility at Pithampur near [...]
To the Chairman, MP Pollution Control Board, Paryavaran Parisar, E-5, Arera Colony, Bhopal 462 016 Sub: Personal and Organizational Responsibility for Toxic Injury to six workers at the MP Waste Management Project, Pithampur, Dhar on June 25, 2010. Sir, We survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal and people exposed to ground [...]
BHOPAL.NET OPINION. On the face of it, the Group of Ministers’ recommendations seem attractive. 700 crores in “enhanced compensation”, site to be cleaned, Anderson pursued – it sounds good, until you examine the details. Then it becomes clear that these proposals, while seeking to salve the public’s sorely wounded pride, actually do little or nothing [...]
In their statement released today, seven Bhopal survivors’ organisations have condemened the Government’s hastily flung together plan to calm public outrage by appearing to offer additional compensation to the Bhopal survivors. In fact less than ten percent of people known to be exposed to Union Carbide’s toxic gases will receive any of this extra largesse. [...]
Press Statement Calling the Group of Minister’s offer of compensation a smokescreen, all seven organizations for survivors’ rights have strongly condemned the recommendations of the Group of Ministers on Bhopal. The Group of Ministers pretends to offer relief and rehabilitation but the details reveal that issues of compensation, rehabilitation and corporate liability are totally ignored. [...]
Our thanks to Shobhan Saxena, for sending us this piece he wrote for his column in The Times of India. ––––––––––––– Because the line between democracy and manipulation is very thin, at times it becomes blurred. Today, this line dissolved completely as the Group of Ministers (GoM) reportedly recommended a number of steps to cool [...]
June 17, 2010. Seven Bhopal survivors’ organisations today sent a letter to the Group of Ministers on Bhopal (GoM), the group of ministers set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to co-ordinate response to the ongoing disaster. The full text of the letter can be read here. The letter presents the consensus reached by the [...]
NDTV (New Delhi Television) one of India’s prime news channels, yesterday received a letter from Dow spokesman Scott Wheeler claiming that the case to hold Dow responsible for cleaning up Bhopal had been concocted by “activists”. “There are some,” Wheeler wrote, “who continue to try to affix responsibility for the Bhopal tragedy to Dow, but [...]
PRASENJIT BOSE The Report of the US India CEO Forum titled “US-India Strategic Economic Partnership”, which was released during the recent Bush visit, has not attracted much media attention in contrast to the hype over the nuclear deal. The CEO Forum was formed during the Visit of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the US [...]
They must be gone because things that appal the rest of us, you seem not to see. You are blind to the agonies of 100,000 people who are still sick in Bhopal 25 years after Union Carbide’s gases leaked there. Blind to report after report recording the presence of pesticides and heavy metals in soil [...]
