Bhpal Tragedy Essay

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Matthew Introduction The Bhopal tragedy. It occurred on the night of December 2–3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL)pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.. Almost 25 years have passed after the world's worst industrial accident: Methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant owned by the US company, Union Carbide (UC), into a densely populated area of Bhopal, in central India killing than 10000 people, and making hundreds of thousands disabled. A recent and very mild sentence against Union Carbide against 7 administrators of UC (2 years of jail and a fine of little more than 2000 Euros. Matthew Location Bhopal is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Bhopal District and Bhopal Division. The city was the capital of the former Bhopal state. Bhopal is also known as the City of Lake for its various natural as well as artificial lakes and is one of the greenest cities in India. Bhopal has an average elevation of 499 metres (1637 ft). Bhopal is located in the central part of India, and is just north of the upper limit of the Vindhya mountain ranges. Located on the Malwa plateau, it is higher than the north Indian plains and the land rises towards the Vindhya Range to the south. The city has uneven elevation and has small hills within its boundaries. The major hills in Bhopal comprise of Idgah hills and Shyamala hills in the northern region and Arera hills in the central region. The municipality covers 298 square kilometres.[2] It has two very beautiful big lakes, collectively known as the Bhoj Wetland . These lakes are the Upper Lake (built by King Bhoj) and the Lower Lake. Locally these are known as the Bada Talab and Chota Talab respectively. The catchment area of the Upper Lake is 361 km² while that of the Lower Lake is 9.6 km². The Upper Lake drains into the Kolar River.

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