Well I've heard of the incident but never really understood the maginitude of it. It is the biggest industrial catastrophe ever. Really grim death toll that could easily top the 3500 and be as high as 15 000 + and the wounded / otherwise affected.
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Some 25 years after the gas leak, 390 tons of toxic chemicals abandoned at the UCIL plant continue to leak and pollute the groundwater in the region and affect thousands of Bhopal residents who depend on it
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Reading that wiki-entry it seems that there have been plenty of reasons as to why the issue is still around. One reason might be the fact that India is a developing nation and as such it doesn't warrant a bigger response from the world community for compensations, clean-up efforts by the guilty parties etc.