Victims hand in demands to GoM

As many as seven organisations of gas tragedy victims came together on one platform on Thursday and said they expected the Group of Ministers GoM to address issues of justice and opportunities for a life of dignity for the survivors.

We hope the increased national and international awareness on the negligence of successive central and state governments over the last 25 years will inspire you to consider our long pending demands, they said in a memorandum to the chairman and members of the GoM,holding its first meeting on Thursday.

They renewed their demand for an Empowered Commission on Bhopal ECoB with adequate authority and funds to design and implement plans for medical care,training and employment generation,monthly pension for the needy,supply of clean drinking water and protection from poison in the soil and ground water in and around the abandoned Union Carbide plant.

They said the actual toll of death and injured victims was five times more than the figures on which the settlement was based and demanded more compensation.