Bhopal gas tragedy survivors pose 37 questions to Centre, state govt https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2021/10/29/bhopal-gas-tragedy-survivors-pose-37-questions-to-centre-state-govt.html The survivors have launched a 37-day campaign ahead of the 37th anniversary By Sravani Sarkar October 29, 2021
Thousands were killed and lakhs maimed for life by the disaster that involved leakage of deadly methyl isocynate (MiC) gas from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984. The survivors and even their next generations are struggling with various diseases, many of them fatal over the years, due to inhalation of the deadly gas.
the mainstay of healthcare of the survivors continue to be symptomatic drugs that provide temporary relief, if at all, the organisations said. "Why are there still no treatment protocols for the proper treatment of gas victims, who as a result, get only symptomatic treatments that often harm them?"
“Dow Chemical USA’s business in India has grown dramatically in the last seven years. In these seven years, the company has ignored six summons issued by the Bhopal District Court to appear in the criminal case on the disaster,” said Shehzadi Bee of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha. “So, we want to ask how the Indian government is allowing a company that does not obey laws of the land to do business in this country?” she said.
Question day one: Govt has claimed in the Civil Curative petition that the Official death count as 5295, but is paying 5000 windows compensation, which means only 295 children, women, unmarried died in the disaster? ( MP Government quotes 5295 deaths in its curative petition in the Supreme Court of India: GOI Petition Synopsis in Supreme Court (page 5 and 11)
Question Day 2: Why hasn’t the owner of the land contaminated by Union Carbide/Dow Chemical, the MP government, ever sought compensation for environmental damage? ( Spread of groundwater contamination from 14 (2004) to 42 (2018) communities: Supreme Court orders from 2004, May 2012, Nov 2012, 2017)
Question 3: Why in the last 11 years has the MP government not filed a single application for urgent hearing of the curative petition? (CURATIVE PETITION FOR ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION ON 28TH JAN 2020 JANUARY 26, 2020 GUNEET NARULA) (Timeline of curative petition: Office report of case in Supreme Court)
Question on Day Four:
(Supreme Court directs the Monitoring Committee, NIREH and BHMRC doctors to standardize treatment protocols expeditiously: 2012 Supreme Court order)