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 * Q5. What was done at the time to fix the problem? Was this the best solution to the problem? **

After the disaster, the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) UCC began to dissociate itself from responsibility for the gas leak. The UCC factory was closed immediately after the accident and three senior members of staff arrested. The UCC launched an intensive effort to identify the cause. There was no communication between the factory and the governments. Dispatched a team of technical MIC experts to Bhopal on the day after the tragedy, which carried MIC studies that were widely shared with medical and scientific personal in Bhopal. A committee of experts, working on behalf of the Indian government, conducted its own investigation and reached the same conclusion. In a settlement mediated by the Indian Supreme Court, UCC accepted moral responsibility and agreed to pay $470 million to the Indian government to be distributed to claimants as a full and final settlement. As further insult, UCC discontinued operation at its Bhopal plant following the disaster but failed to clean up the industrial site completely. Dangerously contaminated water has now been added to the legacy left by the company for the people of Bhopal. ​ //__By Ngan and Fatima __//