Tag: Chief Minister
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Bhopal gas survivor organisations write to CM as 75% of the City’s COVID-19 Deaths are of Bhopal gas victims
Press Statement The organisations working among the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster have written to the Chief Minister apprising him of the fact that 75% of the city’s COVID-19 deaths are of Bhopal gas victims and those exposed to MIC are bearing the brunt of this epidemic. The deaths of gas victims caused…
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Press Statement: Demanding Compensation and Clean Up, Survivors Lock Themselves to Chief Minister’s Residence
Press Statement 18 September 2014 More images below At noon today survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster, neighbourhood residents of the abandoned Union Carbide factory and their supporters locked themselves to the Chief Minister’s residence seeking adequate compensation and clean up of the contaminated factory site. Outside the CM’s residence several carried out a die-in and…
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Survivors ask Chief Minister to withdraw false cases
DOWNLOAD THE LETTER IN THE ORIGINAL HINDI To, The Chief Minister Government of Madhya Pradesh Mantralaya, Vallabh Bhawan Bhopal, M.P. 25 January 2012 Sub: Application for withdrawal of criminal cases against over 2000 gas victims in connection with the incident of violence on the 27th anniversary of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal.…
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Chief Minister backs survivors, Rail Roko ends
SURVIVORS CELEBRATE STOPPING A TRAIN IN BHOPAL. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE The survivors groups have called off the rail roko after a meeting with the Bhopal CM earlier today. The CM has agreed to all the demands of the survivors and in turn written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh supporting the survivors demands. CM’s…
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Political
By June 2005 Babulal Gaur, then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, had for a year been ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to provide safe drinking water for communities whose wells were being poisoned by chemicals leaking from the derelict Carbide plant. The reason: lack of funds. But this did not stop him announcing plans to…
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100 children rally against Gas Relief Minister Gaur
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action November 17, 2008 *Press Statement* Over a hundred children from the communities near the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal today set fire to an effigy of the Minister for Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and…
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An open letter to Shri Babu Lal Gaur, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
ABOUT YOUR PLAN TO BUILD A NEW MEMORIAL TO BHOPAL’S GAS VICTIMS Dear Chief Minister Gaur, Yesterday in Bhopal you told a press conference that you have decided to build a memorial to the memory of those who died in the Union Carbide gas disaster of twenty years ago. “Even after 20 years have passed,”…
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Aye aye aye, what’s all this then?
Hysterically funny news has just reached us. Chief Minister Gaur visited a Bhopal police station the other day and was appalled by the size of the pandus. He has ordered them to go jogging and practice yoga. They are to clean up their filthy police chowkis and must watch movies on good behaviour. We would…
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Bhopal roads blocked for clean water
Tired of waiting for the government of Madhya Pradesh to obey a five-month-old Supreme Court order to supply clean water to contaminated areas, communities bearing the brunt of Carbide’s water poisoning today forced the issue with a blockade of two of Bhopal’s main roads. The action follows recent meetings with Babulal Gaur, then Minister for…
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Bhopal orphans demand proper employment
Orphans of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster have formed their own organisation, Bhopal Ki Aawaaz, “the Voice of Bhopal”, to fight for the fulfilment of promises made to them, but never kept, by a long series of state dignitaries. At a press conference in Bhopal today, the orphans voiced their demand for proper employment and…