Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh,India is observing 32nd anniversary of gas leak tragedy on Saturday as 20,000 people died and scores of people were maimed for life after the Methyl Isocyanate gas was leaked from the pesticide plant of Union Carbide on the intervening night of Dec 2 and 3 in 1984
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghathan, which is fighting for the victims' cause, has alleged that 32 years after the world's worst industrial disaster, the victims are still waiting for adequate relief and justice
Besides relief, the gas leak victims want stringent punishment to those responsible for it and also those who allegedly facilitated escape of the then Union Carbide chief, late Warren Anderson, said the organisation’s convenor Abdul Jabbar
He alleged that the state government has failed to address ‘adequately and with sensitivity’ a host of socio- economic problems that confront the chronically sick, the elderly, the differently-abled, the widowed, and other vulnerable sections among the gas victim
The responsibility for providing safe drinking water to the affected population is entirely that of the state government, which is yet to fulfil its responsibility in this regard, Jabbar said
Both the US administration and Dow Chemicals and DuPont have been accused of being inhumane towards people still suffering due to the toxic waste of the now defunct Union Carbide factory.
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