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New Delhi:
Bhopal gas tragedy victims Thursday accused the Madhya Pradesh
government of concealing facts, and said it continued to deny
publicly that 16,000 people had died in the aftermath of the tragedy
and 5,000 women were widowed.
Representatives of four organisations of Bhopal gas disaster
survivors presented information obtained through the Right to
Information Act here.
They pointed out that in its Rs.982-crore action plan submitted to
the central government, the Madhya Pradesh government had accepted
that 16,000 people had died and 5,000 women were widowed in the gas
disaster and due to the toxic waste that polluted the environment in
and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory.
“Despite these figures, this is not an action plan for the welfare
of the Bhopal survivors. In fact, this action plan illustrates all
that is wrong with the state government’s role in providing
rehabilitation to the victims,” Satinath Sarangi, member of the
Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA), told reporters.
According to Sarangi, while the state government mentions these
figures in the action plan, the state’s minister for gas relief
denies these facts.
The survivors also criticised the proposals for spending the
available funds.
“While the Supreme Court monitoring committee recommended increasing
the number of doctors and specialists, computerisation of hospitals,
development of effective treatment protocols and improvement of
quality of drugs, the action plan of the state government does not
address any of these issues of medical care,” said Rashida Bee of
the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh (BGPMSKS).
“Instead, 95 percent of the budget for medical rehabilitation is
proposed to be spent on purchasing equipment and construction so
that ministers and bureaucrats can make money as commission,” Bee
added.
According to Syed M. Irfan of Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush
Sangharsh Morcha (BGPMPSM), the proposed action plan for economic
rehabilitation consists only of providing loans and makes no mention
of the utilisation of the work sheds that were built with Rs.80
million to provide gainful employment to survivors.
The state government’s plan of action has already drawn flak from
the central ministry of chemicals and fertilizers and the Planning
Commission.
Members of these Bhopal organisations who are currently on an
indefinite protest near the 18th century Jantar Mantar observatory
in the national capital urged the central government to set up the
proposed Empowered Commission on Bhopal that could look into the
rehabilitation issue properly.
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