Sharing a small piece from my book Swaraj --------------------------------------------- Are we citizens of a free country? Are the Members of Parliament of our country making laws for the welfare of its people only? A few days back when I read in the newspapers about the Nuclear Civil Liability bill being presented in our parliament then all fears seemed to come true. The bill proposes that if a foreign company sets up a nuclear facility In the country and if an accident were to occur in the said nuclear facility then the liability of the company is limited to Rs.1500 crore only. Whenever, an accident has taken place in a nuclear facility anywhere in the world hundreds have perished and that country has suffered losses amounting to several thousand crores. For example estimates of Chernobyl nuclear accident in Russia are pegged at Rs. 11650 thousand crores (US $235 Bln) Here our parliament is ready to accept a meager sum of US $ 0.35 bln (Rs.1500 crore). In the Bhopal Gas leak tragedy 2000 people died and an estimated 578000 people were affected but Union Carbide, the company responsible for the same, paid a sum of Rs.2200 crore (US $ 470 million) only, that too after twenty years of litigation. Compare this to Oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico where the Obama administration is demanding damages to the tune of US $ 40-60 bln. (Rs.1800 thousand crore-2600 thousand crore) from British Petroleum. The best part is, there was no loss of human life in the oil spillage.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:54:45 +0000
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