National Pollution Control Day
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The theme for National Pollution Control Day 2023 is “Sustainable Development for a Clean and Healthy Planet”.National Pollution Control Day is observed every year on December 2nd in the memory of those who lost their lives in the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy.
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| The Bhopal Gas Tragedy |
Regarded as one of the worst industrial environmental catastrophes in the history of India, the Bhopal Gas Tragedy took place on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, when a deadly gas, methyl isocyanate, leaked from Union Carbide India Limited’s pesticide facility in Madhya Pradesh. It resulted in more than 3,700 deaths with over 5 lakh people being exposed to the toxic gas.
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