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CPCB fails to file report on water pollution at Bhopal site
Sunday July 15, 2012 08:03:43 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has failed to file a report
in the Supreme Court on the status of groundwater contamination at
the Union Carbide plant site in Bhopal, an environmental group
said Sunday.
The pollution control board was asked by the apex court to submit
the report by June 4 but in a letter to Toxics Watch Alliance (TWA),
Vijay Panjwani, Supreme Court lawyer for CPCB, said that the
report is not yet ready.
"CPCB would file report (on groundwater contamination by Dow's
Bhopal plant) as soon it is ready. There is no reason for CPCB to
hold back or delay filing of report on contaminated groundwater
near the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal," the letter said.
According to the TWA, test results of the groundwater samples
after the rains will not be credible due to dilution by rains.
"Although the deadline has been over by more than a month, the
report with regard to the removal of contamination of the ground
water in the area where the factory is situated has not been
filed," said Gopal Krishna of TWA.
Krishna said the report in question is of huge significance and
involves public interest.
"This will reveal the status of the adverse impact of industrial
disaster in UCC's Bhopal chemical pesticide plant. All the
environmental and human rights groups concerned with the issue are
anxiously waiting for the report," he said.
TWA has requested CPCB to submit its report latest by July 31,
2012.
"In case of CPCB's failure, legal action will be pursued to ensure
that Supreme Court's orders are complied with," he added.
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