New Delhi: The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram will meet for the fourth time on Sunday to discuss environmental issues and the clean up of the toxic waste affected site in Bhopal.
The GoM, constituted to look into all issues relating to the Bhopal gas tragedy and make recommendations to the government, is expected to take up the matter extensively at the meeting. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will be making a presentation on the issue before the group.
Activists, who have been conducting tests, claim that there is still a huge stock of toxic waste lying around the leak site.
On day 2 the Group of Ministers raised questions on the running of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital which, as reported by CNN-IBN earlier, used victims as guinea pigs and turned away from treatment.
Former CJI AM Ahmadi, who was part of the Supreme Court bench that diluted charges against the Bhopal gas leak accused in 1996, is the chairman of the hospital trust, set up on recommendations of the apex court after the hearing.
"We have heard everyone concerned and we will form some conclusions about how the Bhopal Memorial Hospital should be run in the future," Chidambaram said on Saturday.
He said the ministers also deliberated on how the epidemiological works should be done in the future and under what aegis and auspices this work should continue.
"We have discussed all issues relating to health that is relating to Bhopal Memorial Trust Hospital, the satellite hospitals, the epidemiological surveys that were done by ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), the work now being done by the rehabilitation centre -- all these issues were discussed," the Home Minister added.
The GoM, which is expected to finalise its report for the Prime Minister on Monday, discussed all the pending legal issues and options before it.
(With Agency inputs)
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