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Bhopal: The process of disposing of ‘toxic waste’ at Union Carbide factory located in Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal is going on after Madhya Pradesh high court order after a long wait of around four decades.
Official sources said that the process of packing the waste materials at the factory in the state capital began with full protection on Tuesday.
The whole procedure was being done under the supervision of the officials of the Pollution Control Board.
A tragic incident, touted as the world’s worst industrial disaster, “Bhopal gas tragedy” had claimed the lives of several thousand people after deadly gas leaked from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
40 years after the tragic incident, a total of 337 metric tons of waste materials at the factory will be transported to Pithampur in Dhar district for its safe disposal.
On the disposal of waste materials, Director of Bhopal Gas Relief and Rehabilitation Directorate, Swatantra Pratap Singh while speaking with the media said that today, a procedure to dispose of the toxic waste of 337 metric tons lying on the premises of Union Carbide factory is underway in accordance with the order of principal bench of MP High Court Jabalpur dated December 3. It was instructed in the order that the 337 metric tonnes of waste should be disposed of in Pithampur within 4 weeks, where 10 tonnes of waste sample was already disposed of in 2015 on a trial basis.
The reports of waste disposed there have been favourable and there has not been any adverse impact of it to the environment.
Following which, the High Court ordered that the rest of remaining waste lying at the site should be disposed of in Pithampur with properly packed and observing the safety guidelines under the supervision of officials of Central Pollution Control Board and Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board, he added.
The officer further elaborated, “The teams and handlers are packing the waste materials with complete safety wearing PPE kits on the premises of the Union Carbide factory and observing the complete security protection protocol.
Officials of the central and state Pollution Control Board are present at the site. “We will try to transport the waste to Pithampur site within two days and to start the process of incineration.”
The officer also said that he spoke to the senior police officers to provide high security during the transportation of the waste. Proper monitoring of the incineration process will be performed.
