Bhopal Gas Tragedy: 'GoM compensation insufficient'

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Bhopal: The survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in December 1984 don't have much hope from the new Rs.1,500 crore (Rs 15,000 million) relief package announced by the government and doubt whether it will be distributed among the families of the victims honestly.

Ruksana, 62, of J.P. Nagar which is located close to an abandoned pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) that leaked lethal methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas that wiped out her six-member family along with an estimated 20,000 persons over the years, said: "Since the date the tragedy hit us, we every day hear that we will get a massive compensation amount, but it hardly reaches the real victims."

"I doubt whether the new relief package will be distributed among the families of the victims honestly," she said.

She added: "The money comes only for leaders and VIPs, the real sufferers are still suffering and the government seems to be doing its best to add to our agony, I don't have much hope from the new package. If the killers of thousands of people can be allowed to walk free then how can I expect the amount to be distributed honestly?"

Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Gas Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Babulal Gaur also said about 90 per cent of Bhopal gas tragedy victims will not be able to get compensation as per the recommendations made the Group of Ministers.

''Of the 5,58,245 gas victims in 26 wards who had previously received compensation, only 42,208 will get compensation as per the committee's recommendations,'' Gaur, who is a permanent invited member of the committee, told reporters here.

The Prime Minister had constituted a committee of Group of Ministers headed by the Union Home Minister in the wake of verdict of a Chief Judicial Magistrate's court here in a criminal case related to the gas tragedy on June 7.

Besides, damages will be provided after deducting the amount earlier given as compensation. Thus, 5,16,037 gas victims will receive no compensation.

Also, about three lakh gas victims in the rest 20 wards will receive no compensation.

He said the then Union Minister Arjun Singh -- who was a member of committee of Group of Ministers formed by the Centre in 1991 -- was in the favour of providing compensation to gas victims in the rest 20 wards.

Singh had written a letter to the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao on July 9, 1991, in this regard.

Later, he had discussed the matter for providing compensation to gas victims of remaining 20 wards with the Prime Minister in the Parliament House on August 14, 1991, in his capacity as the state's Gas Relief Minister.

He had admitted that residents of these 20 wards were gas affected.

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