Monday, December 17, 2007

IIT and Dow Chemicals

In a move bound to send strong signals to Dow Chemicals that India has indeed not forgotten either the Bhopal tragedy or the unrelenting fight for justice to the Bhopal Gas vitims, IIT Delhi has decided to return the funding by Dow Chemicals for a three day international conference to be organized by IIT. This decision was taken on Saturday.

This was in response to a great pressure mounted by the alumni, students and supporters fo the Indian Institute of Technology. It was sad to read earlier about the IITs trying to get as much funding as possible from this company.

It is also reported that IIT-Madras has been urged to bar Dow Chemicals from recruiting on-campus. Such pressure is being mounted in IIT-Bombay as well as IIT-Kharagpur.

I had written earlier about the proposed partnership of IIT and Dow Chemicals

Just hoping the Bhopal gas victims do see the light of justice soon.

3 comments:

desh said...

i dont knw whether this helps in any way the victims of tht tragedy...
i was thr at bhoapl the day it happened, just couple of months old, my mom and grandparents took me to a distant location...:|

my father says he came thr a couple of days later and witnessed the horrors of it, it was a real stupid act by union carbide

Jo said...

That is a good move from IIT Delhi.

Suchin Kerlapur said...

That's the way go :)

Can we get our votes back if we don't like one we elected? Like the candidate should be able to transfer the vote to another deserving member on the public's request ;) ...

jussttt like that..dont take it seriously