NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which was asked by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to report back to the Cabinet by June 24, will meet on Friday and again on Saturday with the object of wrapping up its work as expeditiously as possible, government sources said.
According to NGOs which have been tracking the gas leak case through the years, successive GoMs on Bhopal have met just 17 times in the last 19 years since 1991.
Given the new sense of urgency in the government, with Opposition parties still in attack mode, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni told journalists that the GoM, which would meet for two hours on Friday afternoon, would focus on “reaching out to those people who unfortunately have not got adequate compensation”.
Government sources said this additional compensation would be paid through a centrally empowered body, such as an empowered commission suggested by the previous GoM, which proposal was, however, was rejected by the Madhya Pradesh government.
