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Ahluwalia confirms Tata offer to contain Bhopal gas leak damage | Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has confirmed that chairman of Tata Group had offered to organise a remediation to contain the damage caused by the Bhopal gas leak. "Ratan
Tata had written to.. he offered if government wants, Indian industry will organize
a remediation. Remediation means to control the damage caused by the gas leak.
There was no discussion about accident or liability. He wrote that letter to many
people including me and I have sent that letter to ministry," Ahluwalia told reporters
here on Friday. Earlier, the Congress party has denied any involvement of the
Central Government in allowing former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson leaving
the country four days after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy was
an industrial catastrophe that occurred on the night of December 3, 1984 at the
Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal. Congress spokesperson
Jayanti Natrajan said that there is no question of the Rajiv Gandhi government
being implicated in the matter, adding that the newly formed Empowered Group of
Ministers will examine afresh the Bhopal Gas Leak case. On Monday, a District
Magistrate's Court in Bhopal had convicted all eight accused on grounds of negligence
under Section 304 (a) for the tragedy. The court also granted bail to seven of
the eight accused and released them on submission of a bond and a surety of Rs
25,000 each. The eight accused are Keshub Mahendra, Vijay Gokhle, Kishore Kamdar,
J Mukund, S P Choudhary, K V Shetty and S I Qureshi and R B Roy Choudhary. Out
of the accused R B Roy Choudhary, then former Assistant Works Manager Union Carbide
India Ltd (UCIL), Mumbai, died during the trial. Anderson, the chairman of Union
Carbide Worldwide, has been designated an absconder. |
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