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India Is Back To A Time Before The Bhopal Gas Tragedy
11 Aug 2020
In 1994, public hearings were open to anyone. In 2006, they were open only to project-affected people with a “plausible” stake. In 2020, a draft notification that will further change the law, makes…
Kashif Kakvi
MP Govt Stops Widow Pension of 4,500 Bhopal Gas-hit Victims, Dept Says 'Funds Exhausted'
21 Jul 2020
The sexagenarian widows claimed that the pension is their only lifeline for survival as they can’t work due to age and diseases.
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Visakhapatnam Gas Leak: What We Didn't Learn from History
10 May 2020
At least 13 people lost their lives to the gas leak in Visakhapatnam last week and this incident has again brought to the fore the irresponsible attitude of the corporate world, after the Bhopal…
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Prosecute Promoters, Fix Responsibility on APPCB: E A S Sarma on Visakhapatnam Gas Leak
07 May 2020
The 1965-batch IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, E A S Sarma, has written to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagnamohan Reddy following the tragedy.
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11 Dead, Over 200 Hospitalised After Massive Gas Leak from LG Polymers Plant in Vizag
07 May 2020
Reports described scenes of people lying unconscious on streets and dead cattle. The Indian arm of the South Korean major was reportedly preparing to reopen after the lockdown.
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COVID-19: After 15 Deaths Due to Virus, MP Govt Agrees to Screen Bhopal Gas Tragedy Survivors
05 May 2020
Out of 16 deaths owing to the pandemic in state capital, 15 were BGT survivors. All of them barring one had a history of ailments like respiratory disorder, kidney dysfunction, cancer, hypertension…
Kashif Kakvi
MP: Government Unresponsive even after 10 Bhopal Gas Tragedy Survivors Die of COVID-19
27 Apr 2020
BMHRC and NIREH has a list of those who survived the tragedy, and they suffer from conditions like COPD, kidney ailments, lung infection, cancer and diabetes, which render them highly vulnerable to…
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COVID-19: 5 Deaths in Bhopal, Gas Tragedy-hit Patients, Activists Demand Screening of Survivors
15 Apr 2020
Bhopal Gas Tragedy survivors associations had already flagged the state and union governments that “the Gas survivors are more prone to COVID-19 as they already have respiratory and lung diseases,…
Kashif Kakvi
MP: 3 Gas Tragedy Victims Die in Bhopal After Govt Reserves BMHRC for COVID-19 Patients
08 Apr 2020
State government acquired the BMHRC on March 24 which was reserved for the Bhopal gas-hit victims. Since then, the hospital has forcefully discharged 86 patients and closed its doors for the gas-hit…
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13 Out of 15 Doctors Quit Bhopal Memorial Hospital, Cite Poor Infra, Job Growth
23 Jan 2020
Patients in lurch as shutdown faces the super-specialty hospital run by the Union government’s ICMR for providing free healthcare to victims of Bhopal gas tragedy.