Government will Set Up Empowered Commission on Bhopal Disaster
8 August 2008: "Giving in to demands of Bhopal gas tragedy survivors, the Government on Friday announced that an Empowered Commission will be set up to look into all aspects of rehabilitation of the victims and cleaning-up of hazardous waste lying in the area. The 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," The Press Trust of India reports. The Minister's statement "finally represents a full response to the 172 day 'Walk Your Talk' campaign begun by Bhopalis on February 20th, 2008. The object of the campaign - the longest sustained campaign by the Bhopalis yet - was fulfillment of a set of clear demands," said the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. "The statement achieves this."
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