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While discussing Warren Anderson, people should remember one fact.
He was not in India when the tragedy happened. He flew down to India upon hearing about the tragedy. He could have easily stayed back.
He was not in India when the tragedy happened. He flew down to India upon hearing about the tragedy. He could have easily stayed back.
May be. Even though UCC had 50% share in UCIL, they had very little control over the plant by the time the disaster happened. The Indian govt overruled every decision(plus they had 25% share in it) https://twitter.com/HitStitch/status/1125440222894780416
There actually was no need for an MIC plant(whr accident happnd).UCIL was peacefully importin MIC, but due to govt over-valuin Rupee vis-a-vis Dollar, forex reserves got depleted & it became difficult to trade. So Govt pressurized UCIL to setup MIC plant against latter's wishes
UCIL bought design of the plant from UCC, but govt mandated all aspects of construction be indigenous.UCC was kept at an arms length durin detailed designin & implementation. So UCC,in its design transfer agreement legally absolved itself of all responsibility in case of mishap
Yes, because they were not allowed to run the plant the way they wanted. They govt imposed so many restrictions. They couldnt even employ foreign experts https://twitter.com/rdinesh5/status/1125448125538230272
For Indian media, Bhopal Gas Tragedy has always been about what happened after the disaster, none studied what led to it.
The only main stream narrative which is a bit closer to reality is the movie 'A prayer for rain'
Finally, replugging the article I co-authored with paynchom(not on twitter anymore) https://www.moneylife.in/article/7-ways-the-government-played-a-role-in-the-bhopal-disaster/39676.html
If you have read the article, do also consider watching this movie.
After the accident, the state govt had setup a judicial inquiry commission to bring out the causes behind the tragedy, but when they realised that it could go against the govt they scrapped it.
It was @tavleen_singh for @indiatoday who reported on this. Indian govt lawyers fighting the case in the US feared that if the commission had eventually established that the Govt and UCIL were to be blamed equally, they wouldn’t be able to extract much compensation from UCC
An excerpt from her report
Here’s the article if anyone’s interested https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19860115-bhopal-gas-tragedy-madhya-pradesh-govt-close-judicial-inquiry-into-mishap-800483-1986-01-15
Then CM on the decision to scrap the judicial inquiry
For “we need proper regulations” crowd
Govt assurances
The central story of Bhopal Gas Tragedy is political intervention in business, command control economy, all that is wrong with central planning, the regulatory mess, but what do they feed you?
“WARREN ANDERSON”
“WARREN ANDERSON”
None of this would feature in main stream media. What you would get instead is unnecessary things like - Arun Jaitley represented Dow chemicals
Strangely Rajiv Gandhi gets all the slack for the tragedy when it was his mother, Indira’s doing.
