Thousands Of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Widows Wait For Pension For 13 Months Thousands Of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Widows Wait For Pension For 13 Months In 2010, following a recommendation of a group of ministers, a pension of Rs 500 per month was approved for the widows. It was later hiked to Rs 1,000 per month, until it was stopped in December 2019.
Raisa Bi is among thousands of women who lost their husbands in the Bhopal gas tragedy.
New Delhi:
Some 5,000 widows of the Bhopal gas tragedy haven t got pension for the last 13 months. The Rs 1,000 per month pension was stopped by the previous government led by former chief minister Kamal Nath in December 2019.