On the 26th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal Gas tragedy, the Centre wants Bhopal gas compensation to be enhanced to 5786 crore rupees. The Centre has filed a curative petition in the SC seeking to reopen the Bhopal gas compensation issue.
In February, 1989 Supreme Court awarded $470 million as compensation to victims.
The Centre in its curative petition says:
It wants the compensation to be enhanced to Rs. 5000 crore ( it says there was a factual error in the 1989 judgement on the number of deaths.)
Government spend Rs. 1413 crore towards the rehabilitation and relief to the victims (state cannot be expected to pay for the damages caused by private companies).
Centre wants Rs. 315 crore to be paid for environmental degradation.
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