<p>An organization working for the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy on Thursday alleged that widows of the victims are not getting pension since December.</p>.<p>"The Madhya Pradesh government should resume the Rs 1,000 monthly pension to 4,998 women," said Balkrishna Namdeo, president of the Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha.</p>.<p>"They haven't been getting pension since December. These widows are living in penury in these testing times amid the Covid-19 outbreak," he added.</p>.<p>Some of these women are on a relay hunger strike for the last two days at Jeevan Jyoti Colony here to press the demand, he said.</p>.<p>The 2011-12 annual report of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department had announced that widows of the victims will receive lifelong pension, he said.</p>.<p>The December 1984 gas leak at a pesticide plant of Union Carbide in Bhopal, which claimed at least 3,000 lives, is termed as one of the worst industrial disasters in the world. </p>
<p>An organization working for the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy on Thursday alleged that widows of the victims are not getting pension since December.</p>.<p>"The Madhya Pradesh government should resume the Rs 1,000 monthly pension to 4,998 women," said Balkrishna Namdeo, president of the Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha.</p>.<p>"They haven't been getting pension since December. These widows are living in penury in these testing times amid the Covid-19 outbreak," he added.</p>.<p>Some of these women are on a relay hunger strike for the last two days at Jeevan Jyoti Colony here to press the demand, he said.</p>.<p>The 2011-12 annual report of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department had announced that widows of the victims will receive lifelong pension, he said.</p>.<p>The December 1984 gas leak at a pesticide plant of Union Carbide in Bhopal, which claimed at least 3,000 lives, is termed as one of the worst industrial disasters in the world. </p>