Tag: Madhya Pradesh
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Bhopal Gas victims stage dharna & demand that MP government stop misleading the Supreme Court in the matter of additional compensation
Press Statement July 25, 2019 Hundreds of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster sat on a day long Dharna (sit-in) today demanding that the state government stop misleading the Supreme Court in the matter of additional compensation by downplaying the damage caused by the disaster. Led jointly by four local organizations, the survivors called upon the state…
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गैस हादसे के सैंकड़ों पीड़ितों ने धरना देकर प्रदेश सरकार से यह माँग की कि वह अतिरिक्त मुआवज़े के मामले में सर्वोच्च न्यायालय को गुमराह करना बंद करे
प्रेस विज्ञप्ति दिनांक 25 जुलाई 2019 भोपाल में यूनियन कार्बाइड गैस हादसे के सैंकड़ों पीड़ितों ने आज दिन भर धरना देकर प्रदेश सरकार से यह माँग की कि वह गैस काण्ड की वजह से पहुँची नुकसान को छुपाकर अतिरिक्त मुआवज़े के मामले में सर्वोच्च न्यायालय को गुमराह करना बंद करे | चार स्थानीय संगठनों द्वारा…
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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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India’s most Secret Incinerator is here
18-July-2011 http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws180711India.asp# The Madhya Pradesh high court has ordered that the DRDE dispose off toxic waste from union carbide’s bhopal plant. Why the secrecy? INDIA MAY have sent rockets into space. But as a nation, we are not yet potty trained. With more than six decades of industrialisation behind us, one would think that India would…
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Survivors demonstrate at M.P. Pollution Control Board
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…
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Open letter to the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board
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…
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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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Bhopalis in massive water protest as State government ignores Supreme Court order
In May 2004 the Indian Supreme Court ordered that clean and safe drinking water must be supplied to 14 Bhopali communities which are currently forced to use water dangerously contamined by chemicals leaking from Union Carbide’s abandoned factory. The response of the State government has been to ignore the Supreme Court order. Today in Bhopal…
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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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Don’t dump your wastes in our lungs
Survivors join Global Action against Waste Incineration, tell Dow, “get your poisonous waste out of Bhopal” Bhopal-based members of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal today joined more than 100 groups around the world participating in a Global Day of Action against the disposal of wastes by burning. The Bhopal ICJB members called on…