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 Even today there are accidents at construction sites, mines and factories

because of the callous attitude of the employers.

Enforcement of Safety Laws-:
 The government is supposed to ensure that safety laws are implemented.

 It is also the duty of the government is ensure that the Right to Life (Article 21)

of the Constitution is guarantees.

Safety laws violation in the Union Carbide Plant -:
(I) – The safety laws were weak in India.

(II) – These weak laws were not even enforced.

(III) – The government officials refused to recognize the plant as hazardous.
(IV) –They allowed it to come up in a populated locality.

(V) – When some municipal officials objected to the installation of the MIC plant the
position of the government was that it needed the investment and the jobs it created.

(VI) – It was unthinkable to have cleaner technology and safer producers.
(VII) – Government inspectors continued to approve the procedures of the plant even
when repeated incidents of leak had happened.