Widows Of Bhopal Gas Leak Victims Will Get Additional Pension

Widows of Bhopal gas leak victims will get additional pension, cabinet approves 1000 rupees.

The Madhya Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday approved an additional amount of pension for the widows of Bhopal gas leak victims.

Now they will be given an additional 1000 rupees every month as pension. This information was given by the State Home Minister Narottam Mishra.

Government spokesperson Narottam Mishra told reporters after the cabinet meeting, “This will be given as an additional amount as social security pension.”

He said that this decision was taken despite the objection raised by the Finance Ministry. The Finance Ministry had stayed the proposal to give an additional amount of Rs 1000 as pension to these women.

Narottam Mishra told that the former Congress government led by Kamal Nath had stopped the additional pension in 2019.

He said that in 2013, the BJP government had started pension. Now it is being started again in the present government.

More than 15,000 people died due to the leaking of methyl isocyanate gas on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984.

More than 5 lakh people were affected due to this toxic gas leaked from Union Carbide India Limited. At that time this plant was on the outskirts of Bhopal.

Jabalpur Highcourt News: All the recruitments of EWS reservation subject to the final decision of the petition pending, the interim order of OBC reservation modified

In the Madhya Pradesh High Court, all the petitions challenging the constitutionality of 27 percent reservation for Other Backward Classes and 10 percent EWS reservation were heard together.

During this, all the parties held a marathon debate. There was a vigorous debate.

Modifying the interim orders issued earlier on 19 March 2019 and 31 January 2020 by the Joint Bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Vijay Shukla.

It was arranged that the entire recruitment process of OBCs should be done on the basis of 14 percent reservation and 13 percent of OBCs. Reservation should be kept in reserve.