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What was Bhopal Gas Tragedy?

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 bhopal as tradegy was an industrial disaster which occured on the midnight of 3rd december 1984 due to leakage of highly poisonous gas Methyl Isocynate(MIC)this caused many people to suffer from respiratory diseases and the genitical transfer of some abnormalities.

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Actually there was a British company called Union Carbide (UC). It was established in Bhopal. On 2nd Decemeber 1984, a gas called Methyl - Isocynite (MIC) started leaking at midnight. The people living in residential areas felt suffocated and died. Like this more than 80,000 pepole were dead and almost hundreds of thousands were maimed. The people who survived., were asked for an interview. They said that they felt as if they were breathing in fire. Almost 50,000 people are sick even today. And the children born even today are found with some or the other abnormalities, as their parents may have inhaled that poisonous gas.

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The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India,bhopal the capital of madhya pradesh considered one of the world's worst industrial disasters.[1] It occurred on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. The toxic substance made its way in and around the shantytowns located near the plant.[2] Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate death toll was 2,259. The government of Madhya Pradesh confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release.[3] Others estimate 8,000 died within two weeks and another 8,000 or more have since died from gas-related diseases.[4][5] A government affidavit in 2006 stated the leak caused 558,125 injuries including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.[6]

UCIL was the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), with Indian Government controlled banks and the Indian public holding a 49.1 percent stake. In 1994, the Supreme Court of India allowed UCC to sell its 50.9 percent interest in UCIL to Eveready Industries India Limited. The Bhopal plant was later sold to McLeod Russel (India) Ltd. Dow Chemical Company purchased UCC in 2001.

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