Saturday, November 15, 2014

India: 'major victory' for Bhopal survivors as government promises extra compensation...

India's government has agreed to increase a multi-million dollar compensation claim against Union Carbide over the 1984 gas leak from the company's pesticide plant that poisoned more than half a million people.

The government has promised to revise the numbers of deaths and injuries for which it was seeking compensation in order to end a nil-by-mouth hunger strike by five women, who began their action on 10 November.

 Yesterday the women, who were on hunger strike and were supported by another 200 survivors and activists, were called to a meeting with Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers, Ananth Kumar. He agreed, in writing, to revise figures the government was using in the compensation claim, and promised to do so before the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster on 2 December. He also agreed to ensure that survivors who had never received compensation would now get the payments they are entitled to. Full story...

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