Gom On Bhopal

• Bhopal gas leak: Toxic waste to be dumped in Germany

  A Group of Ministers (GoM) gave its approval to the Madhya Pradesh government on Friday to dispose 350 metric tonnes of Union Carbide toxic waste in Germany. As per the decision, the Centre will pay Rs 25 crore towards the cost of airlifting the waste which will be removed within a year.

• Group of Ministers meets Bhopal gas tragedy victims and activists

  Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, chairperson of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, Salman Khurshid and V Narayanasamy met the Bhopal gas victims and activists today, after the Supreme Court asked it to take a decision on the disposal of toxic waste after the tragedy in 1984 which left thousands dead.

• Supreme Court asks Group of Ministers on Bhopal to decide on toxic waste

  The Supreme Court today asked the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal to decide expeditiously on the disposal of 350 tonnes of toxic waste of the Bhopal Gas tragedy.

• Govt not to pursue Bhopal compensation case in US courts

  The Centre has decided against pursuing the case of Bhopal gas tragedy compensation in US courts, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said on Wednesday.     "We have taken a decision not to pursue the case as it is not in the interest of victims and not in the interest of India. We have taken a considered decision. Our courts arecompe...

• Bhopal: It's now India versus Anderson, Dow

  From Dow Chemicals to Warren Anderson, the government will now begin a concerted effort to win justice and money for Bhopal, and to fix accountability for the industrial disaster that killed 20,000 residents of the city in 1984.The Cabinet on Thursday accepted the recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM) appointed after a court verdict expos...

• Bhopal survivors ignored by the state

  Days after the Union Carbide disaster, Bimla Devi, fled Bhopal with her husband. She had come to the city as a new bride. She couldn't return to Bhopal when the surveys were being done simply because she didn't know. Her husband was ailing as well and couldn't travel. She returned after eight long years but she couldn't establish that she was a gas...

• Onus of Bhopal clean-up on state government: Panel sources

  After spending two days huddled in meetings over legal and health aspects of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) met again on Sunday, for the fourth time, discussing the environmental damage caused by the gas leakage.After the meeting, Head of the GoM, P Chidambaram said that remedial and contamination issues were discussed and tha...

• Day 2: Bhopal panel to focus on legal options

  The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal will meet again on Saturday - the second in a series of meetings before the panel submits its report to the prime minister on Monday.Today, the panel is likely to look at legal and health issues in two sittings through the day. It will also look at re-opening cases for harsher punishment against the guilty.In ...

• Bhopal: Group of Ministers will finalise recommendations on Monday

  A group of nine ministers, headed by P Chidambaram, got to work on Friday with a complex agenda: to right the many wrongs that have followed the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984.Chidambaram said the Group of Ministers (GoM), who include Law Minister Veerappa Moily and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, will work through  the weekend and finalize it...

• Bhopal survivors' letter to GoM: Full text

  On behalf of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal and those exposed to ground water contaminated by Union Carbide's hazardous waste, we the undersigned seven organizations in Bhopal, wish to present our consensus regarding the decisions and actions that must be taken by the Group of Ministers on Bhopal.

• Bhopal tragedy: Group of Ministers (GoM) meets, Anderson on agenda

  More than two decades after the Bhopal gas tragedy, there is a renewed sense of hope that the government's Group of Ministers (GoM) will look afresh at various issues which have been lying buried all these years. NDTV has access to a note on the issues that the minister's panel on Bhopal will discuss.The issue of former Union Carbide chief Warren A...

• Fresh compensation likely for Bhopal victims

  The Group of Ministers on Bhopal is likely to take a fresh look at the compensation given to the victims of the gas tragedy, sources tell NDTV. The money could come from budgetary support.

• GoM on Bhopal gas tragedy to meet on Friday

  The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy will meet on Friday, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the panel to submit its report to the Cabinet in 10 days."The GoM will meet on the afternoon of June 18," Chidambaram told reporters after his briefing on a meeting of...

• GoM on Bhopal gas tragedy to meet on June 18

  The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy will meet on Friday, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the panel to submit its report to the Cabinet in 10 days.

• Govt reconstitutes GoM on Bhopal case: Sources

  The Group of Minister (GoM) looking into the Bhopal gas tragedy case has been reconstituted, sources have told NDTV.According to sources, Arjun Singh has been replaced as the chief of GoM on Bhopal. It will now be headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram.Law Minister Veerappa Moily and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will also be part of the GoM.Me...