While they have succeeded to some extent, they are still a long way before they can claim to have achieved all the major demands. While murmous sums have been spent on setting up medical facilities in Bhopal, the victims are still suffering m its effects, compensation has not been paid as per international standards and that too not properly to all the affected people The government has failed to prosecute and punish the management of the company for its negligence which led to the accident. We do have better laws today, yet we still do not have a proper policy or adequate impartial inspecting mechanism which will eliminate the possibilty of such disasters in the future. The protem gmin this has been even me complex since the company hell was best in USA People today mood to use imarutional laws to fight against by the problems that the factory workers and women face who being command an affected by the pollution created by the company. Many people at the globe boycoted products made by the company Even today social mobilisation continues when the Dow company sponsored Olympics in London people across the globe signed petition against Multiple organisation found the world ported at the unethical alliance of Olympic body with Dow.
Environmental movements
Environmental movements started in our country too in the 1970s as grass roots movements for protection of natural forests. One such movement was the Chipko Movement which you studied about in chapter 11. Movements against dams on the Narmada river
Building of large multi-purpose dams' was an integral part of India's planned development from 1950s. Some of these included large dams like Bhakra Nangal, Hirakud, and Nagarjunasagar. In the beginning, people were too awestruck by the dams, the huge amounts of water it could store, the vast tracts it could irrigate, the prevent. So much so that no one asked about what would happen to the people,
amount of electricity it could generate, the floods and droughts it could control or prevent. So much so that no one asked about what would happen to the people.
