Twenty years after a gas leak from Union Carbide factory in Bhopal killed thousands of people, the government is now looking at allowing Dow Chemicals - the owner of Union Carbide - back into India. Victims like Sufiyan is a living example of how things are still not well in Bhopal even after 20 years of the gas disaster. There are many others like him who are condemned to a life of disability. But their suffering hasn't got the government to act.
''All we want is that the guilty should be punished and those who suffered should get proper compensation and healthcare. 23 years later, we do not even have clean drinking water,'' says a victim Rashida Bi.
Fed up with assurances from the government, the victims have now decided to use the Right to Information Act. The idea is to flood the prime minister's office with RTI applications and force answers.