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Bhopal gas tragedy- Too little ...Too late !

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After 26 years the long awaited verdict was announced in the Bhopal Gas tragedy …the pain of the pronouncement was not less than the pain it gave when it took away thousands of lives. People were left more agitated and annoyed. More than 20000 people died and lakhs were injured on a chilly winter night of December 2nd-3rd in 1984. The heart rending incident that took away the lives of lakhs of people…the Bhopal gas tragedy is back in news. Bhopal Gas Tragedy was one of the world’s worst Industrial disaster of which the effects were seen in progeny to many generations. Twenty six years have passed since the country's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal which saw a cloud of deadly gases explode out of a faulty tank in a pesticide factory and silently spread into the homes of people. The horrific effects of the gas continue to this day. The Bhopal gas tragedy verdict has sparked nationwide anger. The Union carbide methyl isocynate gas leak was not less than a deadly terror attack that...