The government on Friday said that an empowered commission would be set up to look into all aspects of rehabilitation of the victims and cleaning up of hazardous waste lying in the vicinity of the plant from where the gas leak had ocurred in 1984.
Union Minister for Chemical and Fertilisers Ram Vilas Paswan made the announcement at Jantar Mantar in the national capital, where the survivors of the country’s worst industrial disaster have been protesting for the last 130 days.
