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Bhopal Gas survivors to knock on PM’s door
on 28th anniversary
Monday November 19, 2012 09:54:58 PM,
Pervez Bari, ummid.com
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Bhopal:
The survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, world’s worst
industrial catastrophe, led by the NGOs, (Non-government
organisations), working for their welfare would “knock on the
Prime Minister’s office door” next month on December 3, the 28th
anniversary of the disaster.
The announcement to this affect was made at a Press conference
here on Monday by the representatives of the five NGOs namely
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karamchari Sangh, Bhopal Gas
Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha, Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit
Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha, Children Against Dow-Carbide and
Bhopal Group for Information & Action. The organizations said that
they have invited the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan to join them in their attempt to meet the Prime Minister.
The organizations said that they would raise issues of adequate
compensation for all gas victims, punishment of the corporations
and its officials and medical, social and environmental
rehabilitation of the survivors in their meeting with the Prime
Minister.
The organizations have already sent letters to the Prime Minister
Dr. Manmohan Singh and Chief Minister Chouhan and are awaiting
their responses. In their letter to the Prime Minister the
organizations have pointed out that they had met with the Chairman
of Group of Minister on Bhopal in July this year but there has
been no action on the demands raised by them. In their letter to
the Chief Minister the organizations have reminded him of his
unkept promise of accompanying a delegation of Bhopal survivor’s
representatives to a meeting with the Prime Minister. They urged
the Chief Minister to join them in drawing the attention of the
Prime Minister when they visit New Delhi on 3rd December.
Satinath Sarangi of Bhopal Group for Information & Action said
that 94 per cent of the people exposed to Union Carbide’s toxic
gases have been paid only Rs.25,000 as compensation as the
government has wrongly categorized their injuries as temporary in
nature. They pointed out that the curative petition filed by the
Government of India supposedly to remedy the wrongful settlement
of 1989 itself downplays the deaths and health damages caused by
the disaster. According to them the government should be asking
for $8.1 billion (Rs.44000 crores) in the curative petition
instead of $1.2 billion (Rs.5500 crores) to ensure adequate
compensation for all gas victims.
Ms Rachna Dhingra also of Bhopal Group for Information & Action
said that both the governments at the centre and the state have
failed to protect the legal rights of the victims vis-à-vis the
American Corporations; the Union Carbide Corporation and Dow
Chemical Company. She pointed out that recently British Petroleum
(BP) was made to pay a fine of $4.5 billion (Rs.22000 crores) for
the death of 11 American citizens in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The organizations asked both the governments to take a cue from
this and demand rightful compensation for the people killed and
maimed by the Union Carbide Corporation and Dow Chemical Company.
It may be recalled here that on the intervening night of December
2-3, 1984 Union Carbide pesticide manufacturing factory had spewed
poisonous Methyl Iso-cyanate gas whereby 3000 people had perished
virtually instantly and over the years more than 25000 have kissed
death and the sad saga is still continuing uninterruptedly. About
half a million are suffering from the side effects of the
poisonous gas and several thousand people have been maimed for
life.
(pervezbari@eth.net)
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