Survivors organisations in Bhopal today called for militant action against the US company, Dow Chemical, who recently merged with Union Carbide Corporation, USA - the company responsible for the December 1984 gas disaster. Both the organisations communicated their concerns to the senior executives of the Dow Chemical Company through a letter in August 1999, when the merger plans were announced. The organisations received no response to their demands that Dow accept the pending liabilities related to the death and injury of people in Bhopal, release medical information withheld by Union Carbide and pay for economic rehabilitation and the clean up of the contaminated soil and ground water in and around the Bhopal factory. He also spoke of the Indian government's apathy towards Dow selling their chemical product, 'Dursban' for household use in India. This organisation pays special attention to aged survivors, widows, orphans and others dependent on social security.
Women form the majority of their membership of several thousand.
This is a registered trade union of women survivors who are employed to make of paper stationery as part of the government's rehabilitation program. It is a small organisation with 80 members. This is a voluntary group set up to provide support to the survivors' organisations in their struggle. Formed in 1986, the organisation continues to work on documentation of environmental and medical effects, legal interventions against Union Carbide and the government as well as disseminating information on the continuing disaster in Bhopal.