As, this incident was triggered, several legal and ethical issues were raised:

In the months following the tragedy, the Government of India appointed itself as
sole representative of the victims for any legal dealings with Union Carbide
Corporation (UCC) for processing of compensation by the Bhopal Gas Leak Act of
1985.
After much legal denial of fault and claims by UCC that the Bhopal plant operated
under UCIL and so was not the responsibility of UCC, the UCC and the Indian
government entered a settlement in 1989 of $US 470 million dollars.
Though the incident took some three decades ago, Bhopal has still been reeling
under the effect of the disaster. Even after 2010, there have been public demands
in India for compensating the victims and controlling the adverse effect of the gas
emission.
These claims from vicitims and surviorers It proves the amount in the settlement
was paltry because it is insufficient to address the harms and fatalities as well as
rehabilitation issues of survivors, many of whom for the rest of their lives will be
unable to work for a living because of their injuries. Union Carbide was later sold to
Dow Chemical in 2001, which made Dow the largest chemical corporation in the
world, but Dow claimed that it did not acquire UCCs liabilities. After the Bhopal
accident, not only Indian laws were tightened up, but there was a big wave of
environmental legislation throughout the industrialized world as well as developing
countries. The postBhopal era also saw worldwide regulation on chemicals and
toxicity and a demand by communities to the right to information and to be
participants in the process of industrysiting. In India, however, community struggles
have little success in gaining the 'right to know' whereby people can identify any
contaminated sites in their areas. . The legal system in which the resident is
informed of the problems in that area is still in its infancy. In addition, majority of
people in the catastrophe area are poor and uneducated they are not aware of the
problems that are caused by exposure to toxic remains in the site.
Today, the survivors see themselves as abandoned by the state and local
government in their search for support to carry on their lives and treatment. Several
residual environmental aspects still linger in Bhopal, after several years of the
tragedy. The entire political class of India has been indifferent to the people's
demand for clean water and cleaning of the factory site and compensation for the
victims. The indifference is more glaring as Madhya Pradesh's Congress chief
minister Dig Vijay Singh was honored for being a "green chief minister". According
to a study conducted by Greenpeace the continued contamination of the
groundwater, soil and breast milk present a serious health threat not only to those
currently exposed but also to future generations. On one hand, Greenpeace
continue to contend that Dow chemicals are lagging in the cleanup efforts of the
Bhopal area, on the other hand Dow Chemical claim that it has no responsibility.

Low economic growth rates, obsolete technology, less capital, high unemployment
rate and poor standard of living are the characteristics of developing countries. This
is where Multinational Corporations (MNC) maximizes their benefits by investing in
host developing countries through their technological and other asset advantage.
About 85% of worlds automobiles, 70% of computers and 65% of soft drinks are produced and marketed by
MNCs. Companies like Nestle, Ford and Bayer expanded internationally mainly in search of new market due to
insufficient support from their small home markets compare to the technology and volume-intensive
manufacturing process they pursue. In 1984, Nike shutdown its last US factory and shifted companys total
production to the cheap labour in Asia to have access to low-cost factors of production. Apart from
labour, lower-cost capital also became a strong traditional cause for internationalization such as subsidies from
host countries government.

If globalization is to be augmented through proliferation of free trade agreements on

the world stage and the liberalization markets, then matters of life and death
cannot be ignored. The health impairing pollution is the results of increasing
globalization and economic liberalization across the globe. With proliferation of
MNCs in the host country come several problems and hazards, not just economic
but also environmental. Bhopal Gas Tragedy brought more bad than good to both
Bhopal locals and India. Of course,