Recommendations of Inter-ministerial committee for Safety Measures for Alang Workers Ignored
New Delhi 28/4/2012: On International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) remembers all the workers workers who got killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work in the nuclear, ship breaking and asbestos industry and appeals for legal remedy and justice for these workers.
New Delhi 28/4/2012: On International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) remembers all the workers workers who got killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work in the nuclear, ship breaking and asbestos industry and appeals for legal remedy and justice for these workers.
Asbestos
is banned in 55 countries. Nuclear power industry is being phased out
in the post Fukushima world. The workers condition in these two
industries besides shipbreaking is among the worst in the industrial
sector. TWA demands that asbestos should be phased out, non-nuclear
sources of energy be adopted and shipbreaking industry be taken away
from the Alang beach in the interest of workers environmental and
occupational health rights.
TWA seeks a register
of workers who work in the hazardous industries so that they can claim compensation
for the occupational injuries and diseases they suffer. The
recommendations contained in the minutes of the Interministerial committee is
attached. These recommendations for safety measures
for Alang Workers has been ignored.
The
hazardous wastes/shipbreaking
case Writ Petition (Civil) 657/1995 is coming up for hearing on May 3,
2012. An
application has been filed in the Supreme Court has prayed for ban on
end-of-life ships without prior decontamination in the country of export
as per
this Hon⢬e CourtⳠorder dated October 14, 2003 and an inquiry by an
independent trans-disciplinary investigating agency to ascertain the
circumstances of 'Oriental Nicety' (ex-Exxon Valdez), the dead US
shipⳊarrival in Indian territorial waters and to make concerned
officials
accountable for their acts of omission and commission and seek a
detailed
report on more than 1200 ships broken in last 5 years and more than 5924
ships
broken since 1982 and for compliance with the recommendations of the
Hon'ble
Court constituted Inter-ministerial committee (IMC) on ship-breaking.
TWA demands provision of asbestos
free housing facilities for workers of both the unorganised and organsied
sector workers. It demands the list of
workers suffering occupational diseases for enabling the struggle for
occupational and environmental health justice.
For Details: Gopal Krishna, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA), New Delhi, New Delhi, Phone: +91-11-2651781, Fax: +91-11-26517814, Mb: 9818089660, E-mail: krishna1715@gmail.com, Web: toxicswatch.blogspot.com
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