Bhopal’s toxic waste: A 40-year journey

After decades of struggle, Bhopal residents see hope as the government begins removing 337 MT of toxic waste from the 1984 gas tragedy site.

When Mahesh Pal moved to the Nishatpura area in Bhopal in 2000, the gas tragedy that claimed over 5,000 lives in the neighbourhood didn’t figure high on his list of concerns. After all, a decade-and-a-half had passed since the world’s worst industrial disaster, the infamous plant was long shut, and even the scarred city was beginning to heal. Pal saw that housing prices were cheaper than what they were elsewhere in the Madhya Pradesh capital, and didn’t think twice before

Toxic waste from Bhopal's Union Carbide Factory is being taken away in containers to Pithampur, to be discarded, in Bhopal on Wednesday. (ANI)