Toxic waste from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory was shifted on Wednesday — some forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy. A group of 100 people have worked 30-minute shifts since Sunday to pack the highly toxic substances into 12 sealed container trucks. The waste is currently enroute to the Pithampur industrial area in Dhar district where it will be destroyed.
“It was the remaining industrial waste of the tragedy that took place 40 years ago. The remains will be destroyed by an SOP in the coming days… The Green Corridor is around 250 km long. Around 50 police personnel have been deployed,” said Bhopal Police Commissioner Harinarayanchari Mishra.
Officials said the toxic waste will travel non-stop to reach its destination in around seven hours.
The development, which is a component of a cleaning procedure initiated through state management, occurs almost a month after the Superior Court of Madhya Pradesh rebuked the government for omitting the site despite the commandments of the Supreme Court and Another government. He had established a 4 -week deadline for relocation and punished the government to remain in a “state of inertia. “
“We do not perceive that, despite the delivery of instructions occasionally measure withdraw waste and poisonous equipment, “said a bank from the department leader to judge SK Kait and Judge Vivek Jain.
The highly poisonous methyl isocyanate fuel (MIC) fled from the carbide pesticide plant of the Union on the intermediate night from December 2 to 3, 1984, killing at least another 5,479 people and leaving thousands of people with disorders with disorders Serious and durable physicists. It is one of the worst commercial screws in the world.
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