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On the 38th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Tragedy, thousands of survivors of the Union Carbide Gas Disaster of 3rd December 1984 demonstrated at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi today and demanded that the government should come out with accurate figures of deaths and health hazards due to the disaster. The petition signed by the 40 thousand survivors of the tragedy demanding correction to be made in their curative petition for additional compensation to be heard by the Constitutional Bench of Supreme Court if India on January 10th, 2023. The Senior Advocate fighting the case for Bhopal survivors, Karuna Nundy, and Dalit labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur among other eminent personalities and concerned citizens joined the fight and struggle of Bhopal Survivors at Jantar Mantar that reverberated the demands of justice for the survivors.
Five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in
Bhopal today expressed gratitude to the members of UK Parliament who have signed on to an Early Day Motion (EDM) tabled in the Parliament on November 28.
At a Press Conference today, five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal launched their month-long campaign to make governments at the state and the centre, honour their promises for additional compensation before the 38th anniversary of the disaster. The organizations shared their plan to hold a peaceful rally in New Delhi on the occasion of the 38th Anniversary of the disaster on December 3, 2022.
Leaders of five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal expressed satisfaction at the Indian government’s commitment to pursue the Curative Petition for additional compensation in the Supreme Court at today’s hearing. They expressed hope that while the Court has limited the participation of organizations in the Curative Petition, the government will pay due regard to the claims of the Bhopal victims for enhanced compensation, as they are required to do by statute, as per extent of injuries suffered and deaths caused by the disaster.
Officials of the ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers today assured leaders of organizations of survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster that the government of India will continue to pursue the Curative Petition for additional compensations coming up for hearing in the Supreme Court tomorrow. The Curative Petition filed in 2010 by the UPA government seeks 96 billion rupees as additional compensation for the disaster from Union Carbide and its owner Dow Chemical.
