Dow Bhopal

The Dow Bhopal is an undertaking of the international Dow Chemicals Company that has recently been merged with the Union Carbide Corporation in the city of Bhopal. The multinational organization has been rated as one of the premier chemical manufacturing companies of the world. The international office of the company is situated in the city of Michigan in the United States of America.

The Dow Chemicals Company produces pesticides for the use in the agricultural sector in India. The plant faced a catastrophic leak of the Methyl Isocyanate gas that instantaneously claimed the lives of 7000 people of the city. After twenty years, the death toll rose to 15000 people and more than 20000 people suffering ailment after being affected by the toxic gas. The Dow Company has not taken the responsibility of socially and economically rehabilitating the victims of the tragedy. The former Union Carbide Corporation had received the permission to clean up the site that would ensure the protection of the environment.

With the help of the international organization for human rights known as the Amnesty International, the affected victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have placed their rightful demand of compensation to the Dow Bhopal. The company presented its statement issued on 3rd December in the year 2002 refusing the responsibility to resolve the problems of the victims owing to the expenditure cost and the moral binding that the company shares with the other business enterprises who have similar outstanding issues. The company continues to produce pesticides in the plant site in the city of Bhopal.