40 Years After Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Toxic Waste Disposal Continues To Hang Fire
NDTV
In September, the Madhya Pradesh High Court had expressed displeasure over delay in starting the work of clearing the hazardous waste from the factory.
Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster, 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste remains in a shed of the now defunct Union Carbide despite Rs 126 crore being given to the Madhya Pradesh government by the Centre for disposal, social activists said on Monday.
In the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC) leaked from the Union Carbide factory, killing 5,479 people and maiming more than five lakh others.
Another 1.1 million tonnes of contaminated soil is lying in and around the plant, due to which water sources have also been affected, said ND Jayaprakash, co-convener of Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsha Sahayog Samiti and an intervener in a writ petition connected to the tragedy. It will come up for hearing on Tuesday, he added.
