| what happened to the amusement/national park proposal
| on the union carbide site?
http://www.bhopal.net/oldsite/oldwebsite/amuse.html
PLANS TO TURN THE UNION CARBIDE SITE INTO AN 'AMUSEMENT PARK'
On behalf of the victims of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster,
Abdul Jabbar Balkrishna Namdeo and Rashida Bi sent their strong
condemnation of the ministry of tourism's recently publicised proposal
(below) to convert the notorious factory site into an international
amusement park and tourist centre. These sentiments have been echoed by:
Rajni Bakshi (Free-lance writer), Nityanand Jayaraman (Asia Toxics
Campaigner, Greenpeace International), Roshni Kutty, Ashish Kothari,
Neeraj Vagholikar, Bjorn Rahm and
Rajni Kothari.
Ministry of Tourism
Government of India
Suggestions invited for development of the Union Carbide area as a
National Park at Bhopal
The Ministry of Tourism invites Concepts/Suggestions/Ideas for the
development of land on which the Union Carbide Factory stood.
'The place where life was destroyed will become the place where life
starts'
The 85 acres land is proposed to be developed as a National Park
incorporating a landmark memorial for the victims of Union Carbide
Tragedy. It is proposed to incorporate the following elements:
* Memorial to the Victims of the Union Carbide Tragedy
* A Tourist Centre providing services and tourist attractions
* Craft Village
* Artists's Camp
* Technology Park
* Amusement Park
* Transportation within the campus in view of large area involved
* Any other theme for achieving the above mentioned objective
It is proposed to develop the park utilising Private Capital for
development. The Park should also become self sufficient later at
Operational stage
Concepts/Ideas/Suggestions for development of the National Park will be
appreciated. Besides the elements as listed above, the suggestions
should also dwell upon the modality of utilising private capital for
development and modalities to make the park self sufficient at
operational stage.
Concepts/Ideas/Suggestions may be sent to us at the following address:
lohani@xxxxxxxx or mailed at :
Mr A.Lohani, Director, Ministry of Tourism, Transport Bhawan, 1
Parliament Street, New Delhi - 1