P. M. BRIEFING : Bhopal Dependents to Get Stipends
Dependents of victims who died in the Bhopal gas leak disaster will start receiving the equivalent of $50 a month beginning in May, India’s Supreme Court ruled today.
The order gives interim relief to dependents of 2,000 adults who were among a total of 3,400 people killed when a cloud of toxic gas from a Union Carbide Corp. pesticides factory rolled through the city of Bhopal in December, 1984.
The monthly payments will go only to dependents of the dead. The court is still hearing arguments on how the $470 million Union Carbide paid to the Indian government in February will be distributed to injured survivors and relatives of the dead if that settlement is accepted.
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