Visakhapatnam confirms that India has not learnt lessons from the Bhopal gas tragedy The emergency response to the styrene gas leak incident in Visakhapatnam that rattled the authorities is compounded by an already raging pandemic.
With the prevailing mind-set of the managements at chemical plants, it was no surprise, as we had been expecting such an incident for some time.
As a member of the expert committee and as a member of the task force constituted by the ministry of environment, forest and climate change, giving the final go ahead to projects to develop a national chemical safety plan for India, we had observed a lackadaisical attitude on the part of many people on chemical safety even while making presentations.