Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Background, Reasons, Impact, and Ethical Issues

Individual Report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK..........................................................................................................................................3
Background.................................................................................................................................3
Day of the incident .....................................................................................................................4
Reasons behind the incident........................................................................................................4
Impact of that disaster.................................................................................................................5
Ethical Issues faced.....................................................................................................................6
Corporate social responsibility of UCC......................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Business ethics is the main stream for all the organisation as it covers various issues in
regard to moral and ethics that are being lined for the welfare of the corporation and the
company(Aghamohammadi, and et. al., 2018). It covers that every organisation should follow
the proper business practises and all the policies that being used for the benefit of the people. It
covers various area like the corporate social responsibility, fiduciary responsibilities, insider
trading and corporate governance. The ethical issues that are being implemented in the company
are being underlined as in order to make them work in a proper manner. The business practises
have to be done with all the cultural approach and the area through which there is no harm to the
morals and the ethics of the company and also to the environment. In this report there is a
discussion of case study of Bhopal gas tragedy.
TASK
Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Background
Bhopal gas tragedy has been known as the most painful and the hazardous incident that
has been taken place. This has created a major impact over all the countries specially on India as
whole lifestyle and the nature was being destroyed by that. On 3 December,1984 their happened
a major leakage in the Union Carbide India Limited(UCIL) which was the plant of pesticides that
has been situated in Bhopal, Madhya pradesh. Their was a leakage of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC)
which was the major toxic gas which has affected most of the people who were residing in
Bhopal(Hill, 2017). There were about 800,000 people living there at the time of incident. And
also they covers 2000 people who died just after the incident happened and approx 300,00
individuals were majorly affected by the poisonous gas leakage and that affected them as some
of them were permanently disabled.
The Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) was being established in 1969 that helps in
producing the pesticide Sevin which is the substitute of MIC. The establishment of the company
is through Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). They actually covers 50.9% of all the subsidiary.
The UCC plant was earlier being planned to be fixed in Bombay but there held a meeting in the
company and the minister of Bhopal has led that they want to fix a permanent plant in Bhopal