Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Causes, Impacts, and Ethical Issues

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Incident Day................................................................................................................................4
Major Cause of Incident..............................................................................................................4
Impacts of Disaster......................................................................................................................5
Major Ethical Issues....................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Business law is the main key element in law as it provides various methods and the rules
with certain regulation through which the company and all the organisation can work. The law is
the embodiment of ideas and rules as the way any organisation should work and
follow(Aggarwal, 2018). It mainly covers various laws like Intellectual property rights,
Employment law, corporate law etc. these laws have the binding affect on all the organisation.
Business ethics provides certain methods and the conducts that are needed to be made in order to
frame the work and make it done in a well established way. The companies should always have
to follow the norms in order to maintain the growth of the environment and the culture. In this
report their will be a analysis of Bhopal gas disaster.
TASK
Bhopal Gas Tragedy is a well known disaster that has created a worse impact on the
country as well as well being. That incident has affected a huge number of population, nature and
also the well being of the individual. The incident was happened on 3 December,1984 as their
has been faced the major gas leakage of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) in Bhopal Madhya Pradesh.
And that just took the life of number of people in certain time. By that incident there were about
800,000 people were affected in them about 2000 people faced death just at the time of incident
and about 300,000 were majorly affected by the poison that has been inhaled by them. Some of
the people lost their abilities and were physically disabled.
The main reason behind the incident was the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) that
came in 1969in order to produce the pesticide Sevin which was made by MIC. The main leading
company behind this chemical was UCC that is Union Carbide Corporation. The company was
having approx 50.9% of then total subsidiary in that area and it covers the plant of UCC which
was being fixed earlier in Bombay. But after certain time the government of Madhya Pradesh
insisted as in order to set up that factory in Bhopal and make it as an important and the only plant
for producing the chemical(Ahmad, 2019). Thus in 1979 the factory and the company which
was set up[ in Bhopal started making various chemicals ans Sevin in that plant and the main
chemical use to be transported from America and the rest other mixing use to be done in Bhopal
plant.