Bhopal: Five organisations working for survivors of the Bhopal gas victims have threatened to ‘launch peaceful mass action’ from December 26. At a press conference here on Tuesday, they demanded revision of death figures and extent of injury by the government.
The government’s statement on revision of injured and death is considered vital in the curative petition before the Supreme Court, scheduled for January 10.
Rashida Bee, president of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh said, “On November 17, there was an assurance from MP department of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation, that in the Curative Petition the figure of disaster related deaths is revised upward from 5,295 to 15,342 and injuries suffered by all of the 5,21,332 exposed persons considered to be of permanent and not temporary nature. However, two weeks on we still do not know whether the state government has actually got the revisions done.”
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