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The Supreme Court has pulled up the Centre for not being seriousabout cleaning up the toxic waste lying around for the past 28years, in the defunct Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. At a specialhearing by a vacation Bench on Monday, the court asked if thegovernment's attitude stemmed from the fact that the victims werepoor. "You are not sure even after 28 years. It is because thepeople affected, and living in Bhopal, are poor.
It is a failure onyour part to deal with this," said the Bench, consisting ofJustices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhyay. The court had deferred its earlier order, directing disposal of thetoxic waste by the Pithampur waste treatment storage and disposalfacility in the Dhar district, because of serious concerns raisedby the Madhya Pradesh government, victim and supporter groups andother organisations. The Madhya Pradesh government wanted to send the waste abroad to beincinerated, as none of the Indian incinerators were competentenough, stating that if it were done in India, it would cause asecond mass poisoning.
The lawyer appearing for the victims and supporter groups, KarunaNundy, told the court that the 350 metric tonnes of waste inquestion was just a tiny fraction of the 27,000 MT in the ground.She further said that bad handling can seriously harm the health ofmany, pointing out that in June 2010, six workers had to beadmitted to hospital, and had partially lost their vision when limesludge from the Union Carbide site was attempted to be incineratedin Pithampur. She also added that Union Carbide and Dow Chemicalsmust be made responsible for the clean-up, instead of the taxpayer.She asked that the court supervise the export of the waste. The Centre, however, said that it was going to have a meeting ofthe Group of Ministers on June 8 to decide on the issue. The courtwas extremely severe on the government and said: "You havenot taken any decision. Even this affidavit of yours is so vagueand you always say that you are hopeful." The matter has been posted for further hearing on July 2. I am a professional writer from Residential Lighting, which contains a great deal of information about laptop tv antenna , yashica 35mm camera, welcome to visit!
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