DECEMBER 3, 1984
CHOITHRAM SCHOOL
NORTH CAMPUS
SESSION – 2014 – 15
FA I Social Science – PPT On
Disaster
Class – X – B
Submitted By – Priyansh Pandit
Submitted To – Vivek Agrawal Sir
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my special thanks to gratitude to my teacher Mr. Vivek Agrawal sir as well as our principal Ms. Nalini Pathak who gave me golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on topic
“Disaster”, which also helped me in doing a lot of research and I came to know about so many new things. I am really thankful to them. Secondly I would also like to thank my parents and friends who helped me a lot in finishing the project within the limited time. I am making this project only not to increase my marks but to increase my knowledge too.
Thank you.
WHAT IS A DISASTER
A disaster is a natural or man-made hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. . It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life and property and destroy the economic, social and cultural life of people. THE BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 1984 was a catastrophe that had no parallel in the world’s industrial history. In the early morning hours of
December 3, 1984, a rolling wind carried a poisonous gray cloud from the Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (India). Forty tons of toxic gas (Methy-Iso-Cyanate, MIC) was accidentally released from
Union Carbide’s Bhopal plant, which leaked and spread throughout the city. The result was a nightmare that still has no end, residents awoke to clouds of suffocating gas and began running desperately through the dark streets, victims arrived at hospitals; breathless and blind. The lungs, brain, eyes, muscles as well as gastro-intestinal, neurological, reproductive and immune systems of those who survived were severely affected. When the sun rose the next morning, the magnitude of devastation was
Bibliography: Overview of Bhopal gas tragedy in video Thank You