Now the poison of Bhopal is handed over to Pithampur. After all, for the last 40 years, 337 metric tonnes of waste lying at the Union Carbide plant in the capital Bhopal has been sent to Pithampur. There was anger among the local people to protest against the burning of Union Carbide’s waste in Pithampur and heavy protests started. The protesters reached the Ramki EnWaro campus in Pithampur, where waste is to be executed. In view of the protest of the people, the local administration implemented Section 163 within the 100 meter radius. The protesters say that they are being made a sacrificial goat to remove poisonous waste from the capital. Seeing the matter growing, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has stopped the waste disposal action at present. Now the government has sought six weeks from the High Court for the decision on waste.
As soon as the garbage of Union Carbide reached Pithampur, a period of protest started. Pithampur Bachao Committee, Pithampur Raksha Manch, Congress, Rathore Samaj, Kshatriya Samaj, Sen Samaj, Tribal Samaj, All Trade Union and other organizations staged demonstrations. The Sanwaria Temple, Akolia intersection, Bardari Square, Chhatrahaya Gate, Azad Square, Goodluck Square, AB Road and Manal Hotel were demonstrated and closed one day in Pithampur. During this time the police lathi -charged many places. In a demonstration, two people put petrol on themselves, then someone set fire to the back, which caused both people to scorch. Both have been admitted to Choithram Hospital in Indore. The local administration implemented Section 163 in the 100 meter radius, when the protesters started reaching the Ramki EnWaro campus of Pithampur, where waste is to be executed.
Monica Solanki of Pithampur Bachao Committee says that the way Bhopal’s Union Carbide’s waste came to Pithampur, the strike will continue till it goes to Bhopal. The Congress says that the garbage of Union Carbide has been hurriedly dumped in Pithampur. State Congress President Jeetu Patwari says that the waste was hurriedly dumped from here. There is panic in Pithampur, Indore, Dhar, Betma. He says, “People are setting themselves on fire to awaken the government. This is a matter of sorrow. As long as this waste is not verified on a technical and scientific basis, it should be stopped under any circumstances.
Local people opposing bringing Pithampur garbage
On the other hand, the BJP has thrown the strength of its workers to deal with demonstrations and protests in Pithampur. Party workers are working to awaken trust in people about burning garbage. Apart from the division -wise meetings, these workers are trying to remove the displeasure of the people.
Meanwhile, this was heard in Jabalpur High Court. In front of the Division Bench of the High Court, the government said that due to wrong information, the situation in Pithampur deteriorated and the situation worsened. The government now sought six weeks from the court. On this, the division bench of Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Vivek Jain accepted the demand of the government and now the next hearing is to be held on 18 February.
The BJP government of the state claims that the waste has been taken to Pithampur by taking care of security parameters in view of the court orders. Action to eliminate waste will be taken under the supervision of all concerned teams along with Central Pollution Control Board, Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board. Now the government says that it will put public sentiments before the Honorable Court on the execution of waste and on the basis of that, a decision will be taken later.
Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that he will bring the subject before the Hon’ble Court and will move forward on any action by order of the court. He says that after 40 years of Bhopal gas accident, the harmful effects of about 337 metric tonnes of waste kept in Bhopal have been over. He said that more than 60 percent of the remaining waste is only local soil, 7-inserts in 40 percent, reactor residue and semi processed pesticide waste. The 7-nephel residue present in it is originally a co-product of the process of formation of methyl isocyanate and pesticides. In the discussion with the media, he said that according to experts, its toxic effect is almost eliminated in 25 years.
Trial runs for carbide was also done before. In April 2014, the Supreme Court had directed another trial run of UCIL’s 10 metric tonnes of waste in TSDF Pithampur under the supervision of the Central Government, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, New Delhi. The court also directed to videography this trial run. According to the instructions, after the trial run in August 2015, all reports of practical disposal of the Central Pollution Control Board were presented in the Supreme Court. It was clear in the report that there was no harm to the environment due to the disposal of this type of waste. The Supreme Court issued a directive to carry forward and destroy UCIL’s disposal of waste of UCIL only after intensive testing of all reports.
The government says that the process of disposal of waste disposal processes such as Neeri (National Inventory Research Institute), Nagpur, NGRI (National Geophysical Research Institute) Hyderabad, IICT (Indian Institute of Chemical Technology) and Central Pollution Control Intensive testing has been conducted by the board from time to time.
Based on his study and reports presented in the Supreme Court to the Union Ministry of Environment in March 2013, the monitoring of the Central Pollution Control Board at TSDF at Pithampur on the same waste as a 10 -tonne union carbide of Hindustan Insecticides Limited in Kerala in Kerala Done in The report of the successful trial run was presented in the Supreme Court.
The Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh conducted a separate investigation on the basis of three points in detail. Officials say the points of investigation include the following- health related testing, impact on crop productivity and quality of regional water sources in nearby villages. After testing the three points, the government found that no negative results were reflected by the execution of UCIL waste.
This was not the first time Union Carbide’s waste is facing heavy opposition. Earlier, apart from Ankleshwar (Gujarat), Nagpur (Maharashtra), there was a plan to dispose of the city of Hamburg, Germany, but it failed every time due to local opposition. One aspect of this was that 12 years ago, the German company GIZ was going to be disposed of 6 thousand km from Bhopal for Rs 25 crore in Germany for Rs 25 crore, whereas now the central government has to spend Rs 126 crore at the disposal of this waste. Are.
However, even after 40 years, the waste of Union Carbide of Bhopal remains a huge risk. Thousands of victims are still facing the brunt of the Bhopal gas tragedy.
