Tag: Right to Information (RTI)

  • Survivors demonstrate at M.P. Pollution Control Board

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    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…

  • What fate for survivors of an Indian nuclear disaster?

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    ICJB press release of 4 May, 2010 here Bhopal gas survivors gathered outside the Prime Minister of India’s office in New Delhi to file Right-to-Information (RTI) requests regarding the civil nuclear liability bill and its relationship with the lessons of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. “We want to know whether the lingering concerns of…

  • Press release: Over 100 survivors query PM’s Delhi office

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    One hundred and twenty five survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today filed applications for information at the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Braving objections of over 100 armed policemen, the survivors sought information on steps taken towards fulfillment of the Prime Minister’s…

  • Singur: where the left turns right

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    M J Vijayan, Tehelka, December 23, 2006 The CPM machinery has gone into overdrive in Singur to secure the Tata deal; it has left the peasantry, its constituency, totally in the cold In the interests of informed debate on issues of prime importance, one should welcome the CPM campaign in the media with its ‘truths’…