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&lt;em&gt;The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which India agreed to a $470 million settlement, be reopened &lt;/em&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;New Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;On the intervening night of December 2-3 1984, a highly unstable chemical, methyl isocyanate (MiC), an intermediary substance used to manufacture Sevin, a pesticide, leaked from tank 610 in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal.
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It was 3.30am, on 3 December 1984, and the police in Bhopal still had no clue what had leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant. The then superintendent of police, Swaraj Puri, was in the control room. &amp;quot;My first question to the company officials was, &amp;lsquo;What is it?&#039; The official said he had no clue.&amp;quot;
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Next morning, the company equated the poisoning with tear gas, adding that the gas was &amp;quot;slightly more potent&amp;quot;. What followed next can only be described as a holocaust and not a &amp;quot;tragedy&amp;quot;, Puri says. &amp;quot;Calling it a tragedy or an unfortunate accident is a reflection of a person&#039;s value system. For me, it was a holocaust. If an outsider perceives the impact of gas leak as an accident, it is because he has not lived through it.&amp;quot;
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After 29 years, the fight for financial compensation for the survivors of the world&#039;s worst industrial disaster is far from over. The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which the Indian government agreed to a $470 million out-of-court settlement, be reopened. The curative petition in the Supreme Court, filed in December 2010, argues against the terms of the 1989 settlement on the plea that it was based on underestimated figures of the dead and injured.
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&amp;quot;We have serious differences with the central government&#039;s stand regarding the number of dead (just 5,295) and the seriously injured (just 4,944) and regarding the paltry claims for relief and rehabilitation and for environmental damage,&amp;quot; said Abdul Jabbar, a survivor and activist who set up the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), a victim-campaign group. &amp;quot;The stand of BGPMUS regarding the number of dead (over 20,000) and seriously injured (over 150,000) has already been explained in the special leave petition (SLP) that is currently pending before the Supreme Court as SLP,&amp;quot; he added in a media statement.
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The curative petition for reopening the settlement is still pending.
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Meanwhile, a group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister P. Chidambaram is yet to decide on the best way to safely dispose 346 tonnes of toxic waste lying inside the factory. &amp;quot;Neither the state nor the central government has made any attempt to either undertake a comprehensive assessment of the ramifications of the Bhopal disaster or to take necessary remedial measures. As a result, the gas victims have had to wage concerted struggles in their quest for medical relief, compensation and justice,&amp;quot; reads the statement issued by BGPMUS.
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In 1994, Union Carbide Corp. sold its stake in Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL), after which UCIL changed its name to Eveready Industries India Ltd. In 1998, Eveready Industries terminated its lease of the Bhopal plant site and surrendered the property to the Madhya Pradesh government. Sixteen years after the tragedy, Union Carbide was brought over by Dow Chemical Co. for $11.6 billion in 2001.
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Nearly three decades later, Puri says what disheartens him the most is that despite the company being charged with &amp;quot;culpable homicide not amounting to murder&amp;quot;, not one official from the Union Carbide headquarters appeared in court, and a magistrate declared the company and its chief executive &amp;quot;absconders&amp;quot; from the law.
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&lt;em&gt;New Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;On the intervening night of December 2-3 1984, a highly unstable chemical, methyl isocyanate (MiC), an intermediary substance used to manufacture Sevin, a pesticide, leaked from tank 610 in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal.
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Meanwhile, a group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister P. Chidambaram is yet to decide on the best way to safely dispose 346 tonnes of toxic waste lying inside the factory. &amp;quot;Neither the state nor the central government has made any attempt to either undertake a comprehensive assessment of the ramifications of the Bhopal disaster or to take necessary remedial measures. As a result, the gas victims have had to wage concerted struggles in their quest for medical relief, compensation and justice,&amp;quot; reads the statement issued by BGPMUS.
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In 1994, Union Carbide Corp. sold its stake in Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL), after which UCIL changed its name to Eveready Industries India Ltd. In 1998, Eveready Industries terminated its lease of the Bhopal plant site and surrendered the property to the Madhya Pradesh government. Sixteen years after the tragedy, Union Carbide was brought over by Dow Chemical Co. for $11.6 billion in 2001.
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                <div align="justify">-Live Mint</div><p align="justify"><br /><em>The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which India agreed to a $470 million settlement, be reopened </em></p><p align="justify"><em>New Delhi: </em>On the intervening night of December 2-3 1984, a highly unstable chemical, methyl isocyanate (MiC), an intermediary substance used to manufacture Sevin, a pesticide, leaked from tank 610 in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal.</p><p align="justify">The leak was first detected by workers about 11.30pm as their eyes began to burn.</p><p align="justify">By 12.40am, the temperature and pressure in the tank had built up. Within an hour of the leak, victims started arriving at the nearby government health facility, Hamidia Hospital.</p><p align="justify">It was 3.30am, on 3 December 1984, and the police in Bhopal still had no clue what had leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant. The then superintendent of police, Swaraj Puri, was in the control room. &quot;My first question to the company officials was, &lsquo;What is it?' The official said he had no clue.&quot;</p><p align="justify">Next morning, the company equated the poisoning with tear gas, adding that the gas was &quot;slightly more potent&quot;. What followed next can only be described as a holocaust and not a &quot;tragedy&quot;, Puri says. &quot;Calling it a tragedy or an unfortunate accident is a reflection of a person's value system. For me, it was a holocaust. If an outsider perceives the impact of gas leak as an accident, it is because he has not lived through it.&quot;</p><p align="justify">After 29 years, the fight for financial compensation for the survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster is far from over. The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which the Indian government agreed to a $470 million out-of-court settlement, be reopened. The curative petition in the Supreme Court, filed in December 2010, argues against the terms of the 1989 settlement on the plea that it was based on underestimated figures of the dead and injured.</p><p align="justify">&quot;We have serious differences with the central government's stand regarding the number of dead (just 5,295) and the seriously injured (just 4,944) and regarding the paltry claims for relief and rehabilitation and for environmental damage,&quot; said Abdul Jabbar, a survivor and activist who set up the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), a victim-campaign group. &quot;The stand of BGPMUS regarding the number of dead (over 20,000) and seriously injured (over 150,000) has already been explained in the special leave petition (SLP) that is currently pending before the Supreme Court as SLP,&quot; he added in a media statement.</p><p align="justify">An Amnesty International report, published in 2004, says fatalities from the first few days of the disaster had been grossly underestimated and it would not be unrealistic, in this context, to put the number of the dead at over 20,000.</p><p align="justify">The curative petition for reopening the settlement is still pending.</p><p align="justify">Meanwhile, a group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister P. 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Sixteen years after the tragedy, Union Carbide was brought over by Dow Chemical Co. for $11.6 billion in 2001.</p><p align="justify">Nearly three decades later, Puri says what disheartens him the most is that despite the company being charged with &quot;culpable homicide not amounting to murder&quot;, not one official from the Union Carbide headquarters appeared in court, and a magistrate declared the company and its chief executive &quot;absconders&quot; from the law.</p><p align="justify">Victims' groups, for long, argued about Dow being drawn into the criminal case for allegedly giving shelter to Union Carbide-considered a fugitive.</p><p align="justify">&quot;I have woken up with nightmares of that night. Every year, I spent 3 December at the cemetery where hundreds of children were buried. 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&lt;em&gt;New Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;On the intervening night of December 2-3 1984, a highly unstable chemical, methyl isocyanate (MiC), an intermediary substance used to manufacture Sevin, a pesticide, leaked from tank 610 in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal.
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The curative petition in the Supreme Court, filed in December 2010, argues against the terms of the 1989 settlement on the plea that it was based on underestimated figures of the dead and injured.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We have serious differences with the central government&#039;s stand regarding the number of dead (just 5,295) and the seriously injured (just 4,944) and regarding the paltry claims for relief and rehabilitation and for environmental damage,&amp;quot; said Abdul Jabbar, a survivor and activist who set up the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), a victim-campaign group. &amp;quot;The stand of BGPMUS regarding the number of dead (over 20,000) and seriously injured (over 150,000) has already been explained in the special leave petition (SLP) that is currently pending before the Supreme Court as SLP,&amp;quot; he added in a media statement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;An Amnesty International report, published in 2004, says fatalities from the first few days of the disaster had been grossly underestimated and it would not be unrealistic, in this context, to put the number of the dead at over 20,000.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The curative petition for reopening the settlement is still pending.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Meanwhile, a group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister P. 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Next morning, the company equated the poisoning with tear gas, adding that the gas was &amp;quot;slightly more potent&amp;quot;. What followed next can only be described as a holocaust and not a &amp;quot;tragedy&amp;quot;, Puri says. &amp;quot;Calling it a tragedy or an unfortunate accident is a reflection of a person&#039;s value system. For me, it was a holocaust. If an outsider perceives the impact of gas leak as an accident, it is because he has not lived through it.&amp;quot;
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After 29 years, the fight for financial compensation for the survivors of the world&#039;s worst industrial disaster is far from over. The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which the Indian government agreed to a $470 million out-of-court settlement, be reopened. The curative petition in the Supreme Court, filed in December 2010, argues against the terms of the 1989 settlement on the plea that it was based on underestimated figures of the dead and injured.
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&amp;quot;We have serious differences with the central government&#039;s stand regarding the number of dead (just 5,295) and the seriously injured (just 4,944) and regarding the paltry claims for relief and rehabilitation and for environmental damage,&amp;quot; said Abdul Jabbar, a survivor and activist who set up the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), a victim-campaign group. &amp;quot;The stand of BGPMUS regarding the number of dead (over 20,000) and seriously injured (over 150,000) has already been explained in the special leave petition (SLP) that is currently pending before the Supreme Court as SLP,&amp;quot; he added in a media statement.
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Meanwhile, a group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister P. Chidambaram is yet to decide on the best way to safely dispose 346 tonnes of toxic waste lying inside the factory. &amp;quot;Neither the state nor the central government has made any attempt to either undertake a comprehensive assessment of the ramifications of the Bhopal disaster or to take necessary remedial measures. As a result, the gas victims have had to wage concerted struggles in their quest for medical relief, compensation and justice,&amp;quot; reads the statement issued by BGPMUS.
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In 1994, Union Carbide Corp. sold its stake in Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL), after which UCIL changed its name to Eveready Industries India Ltd. In 1998, Eveready Industries terminated its lease of the Bhopal plant site and surrendered the property to the Madhya Pradesh government. Sixteen years after the tragedy, Union Carbide was brought over by Dow Chemical Co. for $11.6 billion in 2001.
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Nearly three decades later, Puri says what disheartens him the most is that despite the company being charged with &amp;quot;culpable homicide not amounting to murder&amp;quot;, not one official from the Union Carbide headquarters appeared in court, and a magistrate declared the company and its chief executive &amp;quot;absconders&amp;quot; from the law.
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                <div align="justify">-Live Mint</div><p align="justify"><br /><em>The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which India agreed to a $470 million settlement, be reopened </em></p><p align="justify"><em>New Delhi: </em>On the intervening night of December 2-3 1984, a highly unstable chemical, methyl isocyanate (MiC), an intermediary substance used to manufacture Sevin, a pesticide, leaked from tank 610 in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal.</p><p align="justify">The leak was first detected by workers about 11.30pm as their eyes began to burn.</p><p align="justify">By 12.40am, the temperature and pressure in the tank had built up. Within an hour of the leak, victims started arriving at the nearby government health facility, Hamidia Hospital.</p><p align="justify">It was 3.30am, on 3 December 1984, and the police in Bhopal still had no clue what had leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant. The then superintendent of police, Swaraj Puri, was in the control room. &quot;My first question to the company officials was, &lsquo;What is it?' The official said he had no clue.&quot;</p><p align="justify">Next morning, the company equated the poisoning with tear gas, adding that the gas was &quot;slightly more potent&quot;. What followed next can only be described as a holocaust and not a &quot;tragedy&quot;, Puri says. &quot;Calling it a tragedy or an unfortunate accident is a reflection of a person's value system. For me, it was a holocaust. If an outsider perceives the impact of gas leak as an accident, it is because he has not lived through it.&quot;</p><p align="justify">After 29 years, the fight for financial compensation for the survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster is far from over. The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which the Indian government agreed to a $470 million out-of-court settlement, be reopened. The curative petition in the Supreme Court, filed in December 2010, argues against the terms of the 1989 settlement on the plea that it was based on underestimated figures of the dead and injured.</p><p align="justify">&quot;We have serious differences with the central government's stand regarding the number of dead (just 5,295) and the seriously injured (just 4,944) and regarding the paltry claims for relief and rehabilitation and for environmental damage,&quot; said Abdul Jabbar, a survivor and activist who set up the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), a victim-campaign group. &quot;The stand of BGPMUS regarding the number of dead (over 20,000) and seriously injured (over 150,000) has already been explained in the special leave petition (SLP) that is currently pending before the Supreme Court as SLP,&quot; he added in a media statement.</p><p align="justify">An Amnesty International report, published in 2004, says fatalities from the first few days of the disaster had been grossly underestimated and it would not be unrealistic, in this context, to put the number of the dead at over 20,000.</p><p align="justify">The curative petition for reopening the settlement is still pending.</p><p align="justify">Meanwhile, a group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister P. 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<em>New Delhi: </em>On the intervening night of December 2-3 1984, a highly unstable chemical, methyl isocyanate (MiC), an intermediary substance used to manufacture Sevin, a pesticide, leaked from tank 610 in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal.
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The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which India agreed to a $470 million settlement, be reopened 


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	'disp' => '<div align="justify">-Live Mint</div><p align="justify"><br /><em>The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which India agreed to a $470 million settlement, be reopened </em></p><p align="justify"><em>New Delhi: </em>On the intervening night of December 2-3 1984, a highly unstable chemical, methyl isocyanate (MiC), an intermediary substance used to manufacture Sevin, a pesticide, leaked from tank 610 in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal.</p><p align="justify">The leak was first detected by workers about 11.30pm as their eyes began to burn.</p><p align="justify">By 12.40am, the temperature and pressure in the tank had built up. Within an hour of the leak, victims started arriving at the nearby government health facility, Hamidia Hospital.</p><p align="justify">It was 3.30am, on 3 December 1984, and the police in Bhopal still had no clue what had leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant. The then superintendent of police, Swaraj Puri, was in the control room. &quot;My first question to the company officials was, &lsquo;What is it?' The official said he had no clue.&quot;</p><p align="justify">Next morning, the company equated the poisoning with tear gas, adding that the gas was &quot;slightly more potent&quot;. What followed next can only be described as a holocaust and not a &quot;tragedy&quot;, Puri says. &quot;Calling it a tragedy or an unfortunate accident is a reflection of a person's value system. For me, it was a holocaust. If an outsider perceives the impact of gas leak as an accident, it is because he has not lived through it.&quot;</p><p align="justify">After 29 years, the fight for financial compensation for the survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster is far from over. The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which the Indian government agreed to a $470 million out-of-court settlement, be reopened. The curative petition in the Supreme Court, filed in December 2010, argues against the terms of the 1989 settlement on the plea that it was based on underestimated figures of the dead and injured.</p><p align="justify">&quot;We have serious differences with the central government's stand regarding the number of dead (just 5,295) and the seriously injured (just 4,944) and regarding the paltry claims for relief and rehabilitation and for environmental damage,&quot; said Abdul Jabbar, a survivor and activist who set up the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), a victim-campaign group. &quot;The stand of BGPMUS regarding the number of dead (over 20,000) and seriously injured (over 150,000) has already been explained in the special leave petition (SLP) that is currently pending before the Supreme Court as SLP,&quot; he added in a media statement.</p><p align="justify">An Amnesty International report, published in 2004, says fatalities from the first few days of the disaster had been grossly underestimated and it would not be unrealistic, in this context, to put the number of the dead at over 20,000.</p><p align="justify">The curative petition for reopening the settlement is still pending.</p><p align="justify">Meanwhile, a group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister P. Chidambaram is yet to decide on the best way to safely dispose 346 tonnes of toxic waste lying inside the factory. &quot;Neither the state nor the central government has made any attempt to either undertake a comprehensive assessment of the ramifications of the Bhopal disaster or to take necessary remedial measures. As a result, the gas victims have had to wage concerted struggles in their quest for medical relief, compensation and justice,&quot; reads the statement issued by BGPMUS.</p><p align="justify">In 1994, Union Carbide Corp. sold its stake in Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL), after which UCIL changed its name to Eveready Industries India Ltd. In 1998, Eveready Industries terminated its lease of the Bhopal plant site and surrendered the property to the Madhya Pradesh government. Sixteen years after the tragedy, Union Carbide was brought over by Dow Chemical Co. for $11.6 billion in 2001.</p><p align="justify">Nearly three decades later, Puri says what disheartens him the most is that despite the company being charged with &quot;culpable homicide not amounting to murder&quot;, not one official from the Union Carbide headquarters appeared in court, and a magistrate declared the company and its chief executive &quot;absconders&quot; from the law.</p><p align="justify">Victims' groups, for long, argued about Dow being drawn into the criminal case for allegedly giving shelter to Union Carbide-considered a fugitive.</p><p align="justify">&quot;I have woken up with nightmares of that night. Every year, I spent 3 December at the cemetery where hundreds of children were buried. This could have been handled much better and the company owed it to the people of Bhopal to take upon themselves the burden of responsibility that came with this holocaust,&quot; he said.</p>',
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<em>The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which India agreed to a $470 million settlement, be reopened </em>
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<em>New Delhi: </em>On the intervening night of December 2-3 1984, a highly unstable chemical, methyl isocyanate (MiC), an intermediary substance used to manufacture Sevin, a pesticide, leaked from tank 610 in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal.
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The leak was first detected by workers about 11.30pm as their eyes began to burn.
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By 12.40am, the temperature and pressure in the tank had built up. Within an hour of the leak, victims started arriving at the nearby government health facility, Hamidia Hospital.
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It was 3.30am, on 3 December 1984, and the police in Bhopal still had no clue what had leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant. The then superintendent of police, Swaraj Puri, was in the control room. &quot;My first question to the company officials was, &lsquo;What is it?' The official said he had no clue.&quot;
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Next morning, the company equated the poisoning with tear gas, adding that the gas was &quot;slightly more potent&quot;. What followed next can only be described as a holocaust and not a &quot;tragedy&quot;, Puri says. &quot;Calling it a tragedy or an unfortunate accident is a reflection of a person's value system. For me, it was a holocaust. If an outsider perceives the impact of gas leak as an accident, it is because he has not lived through it.&quot;
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After 29 years, the fight for financial compensation for the survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster is far from over. The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which the Indian government agreed to a $470 million out-of-court settlement, be reopened. The curative petition in the Supreme Court, filed in December 2010, argues against the terms of the 1989 settlement on the plea that it was based on underestimated figures of the dead and injured.
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&quot;We have serious differences with the central government's stand regarding the number of dead (just 5,295) and the seriously injured (just 4,944) and regarding the paltry claims for relief and rehabilitation and for environmental damage,&quot; said Abdul Jabbar, a survivor and activist who set up the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), a victim-campaign group. &quot;The stand of BGPMUS regarding the number of dead (over 20,000) and seriously injured (over 150,000) has already been explained in the special leave petition (SLP) that is currently pending before the Supreme Court as SLP,&quot; he added in a media statement.
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An Amnesty International report, published in 2004, says fatalities from the first few days of the disaster had been grossly underestimated and it would not be unrealistic, in this context, to put the number of the dead at over 20,000.
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The curative petition for reopening the settlement is still pending.
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Meanwhile, a group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister P. Chidambaram is yet to decide on the best way to safely dispose 346 tonnes of toxic waste lying inside the factory. &quot;Neither the state nor the central government has made any attempt to either undertake a comprehensive assessment of the ramifications of the Bhopal disaster or to take necessary remedial measures. As a result, the gas victims have had to wage concerted struggles in their quest for medical relief, compensation and justice,&quot; reads the statement issued by BGPMUS.
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In 1994, Union Carbide Corp. sold its stake in Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL), after which UCIL changed its name to Eveready Industries India Ltd. In 1998, Eveready Industries terminated its lease of the Bhopal plant site and surrendered the property to the Madhya Pradesh government. Sixteen years after the tragedy, Union Carbide was brought over by Dow Chemical Co. for $11.6 billion in 2001.
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Nearly three decades later, Puri says what disheartens him the most is that despite the company being charged with &quot;culpable homicide not amounting to murder&quot;, not one official from the Union Carbide headquarters appeared in court, and a magistrate declared the company and its chief executive &quot;absconders&quot; from the law.
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Victims' groups, for long, argued about Dow being drawn into the criminal case for allegedly giving shelter to Union Carbide-considered a fugitive.
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&quot;I have woken up with nightmares of that night. Every year, I spent 3 December at the cemetery where hundreds of children were buried. This could have been handled much better and the company owed it to the people of Bhopal to take upon themselves the burden of responsibility that came with this holocaust,&quot; he said.
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Bhopal gas tragedy: the fight continues -Vidya Krishnan

-Live Mint The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which India agreed to a $470 million settlement, be reopened New Delhi: On the intervening night of December 2-3 1984, a highly unstable chemical, methyl isocyanate (MiC), an intermediary substance used to manufacture Sevin, a pesticide, leaked from tank 610 in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. The leak was first detected by workers about 11.30pm as their eyes began to burn. By 12.40am, the temperature and pressure in the tank had built up. Within an hour of the leak, victims started arriving at the nearby government health facility, Hamidia Hospital. It was 3.30am, on 3 December 1984, and the police in Bhopal still had no clue what had leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant. The then superintendent of police, Swaraj Puri, was in the control room. "My first question to the company officials was, ‘What is it?' The official said he had no clue." Next morning, the company equated the poisoning with tear gas, adding that the gas was "slightly more potent". What followed next can only be described as a holocaust and not a "tragedy", Puri says. "Calling it a tragedy or an unfortunate accident is a reflection of a person's value system. For me, it was a holocaust. If an outsider perceives the impact of gas leak as an accident, it is because he has not lived through it." After 29 years, the fight for financial compensation for the survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster is far from over. The survivors are demanding that the 1989 verdict, in which the Indian government agreed to a $470 million out-of-court settlement, be reopened. The curative petition in the Supreme Court, filed in December 2010, argues against the terms of the 1989 settlement on the plea that it was based on underestimated figures of the dead and injured. "We have serious differences with the central government's stand regarding the number of dead (just 5,295) and the seriously injured (just 4,944) and regarding the paltry claims for relief and rehabilitation and for environmental damage," said Abdul Jabbar, a survivor and activist who set up the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), a victim-campaign group. "The stand of BGPMUS regarding the number of dead (over 20,000) and seriously injured (over 150,000) has already been explained in the special leave petition (SLP) that is currently pending before the Supreme Court as SLP," he added in a media statement. An Amnesty International report, published in 2004, says fatalities from the first few days of the disaster had been grossly underestimated and it would not be unrealistic, in this context, to put the number of the dead at over 20,000. The curative petition for reopening the settlement is still pending. Meanwhile, a group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister P. Chidambaram is yet to decide on the best way to safely dispose 346 tonnes of toxic waste lying inside the factory. "Neither the state nor the central government has made any attempt to either undertake a comprehensive assessment of the ramifications of the Bhopal disaster or to take necessary remedial measures. As a result, the gas victims have had to wage concerted struggles in their quest for medical relief, compensation and justice," reads the statement issued by BGPMUS. In 1994, Union Carbide Corp. sold its stake in Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL), after which UCIL changed its name to Eveready Industries India Ltd. In 1998, Eveready Industries terminated its lease of the Bhopal plant site and surrendered the property to the Madhya Pradesh government. Sixteen years after the tragedy, Union Carbide was brought over by Dow Chemical Co. for $11.6 billion in 2001. Nearly three decades later, Puri says what disheartens him the most is that despite the company being charged with "culpable homicide not amounting to murder", not one official from the Union Carbide headquarters appeared in court, and a magistrate declared the company and its chief executive "absconders" from the law. Victims' groups, for long, argued about Dow being drawn into the criminal case for allegedly giving shelter to Union Carbide-considered a fugitive. "I have woken up with nightmares of that night. Every year, I spent 3 December at the cemetery where hundreds of children were buried. This could have been handled much better and the company owed it to the people of Bhopal to take upon themselves the burden of responsibility that came with this holocaust," he said.