ABOUT BHOPAL

Bhopāl (Hindi: भोपाल, pron. [bʱoːpaːl] ( listen)) is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarter of Bhopal District and Bhopal Division. Bhopal is known as the Lake city^[3] (or City of Lakes^[4]) as its landscape is dotted with a number of natural lakes. Bhopal is also one of the greenest cities of India.

Historically, Bhopal was also the capital of the Bhopal state. The city attracted international attention as a consequence of the Bhopal disaster, when the Union Carbide plant leaked deadly methyl isocyanate gas during the night of 3 December, 1984. The plant was operated by an Indian subsidiary, UCIL. The poisonous gas killed thousands of people & animals in the city and its neighboring areas, and thousands of others still suffer from its effects even two decades later in second generation birth defects. Since then, Bhopal has been a center of protests and campaigns which have been joined by many people from across the globe.

On 11 April 2005, the Indian Space Research Organisation established a Master Control Facility in Ayodhya Nagar, to control the movements of satellites.^[5] It is the second of its kind in the country (the first being at Hassan ^[6]). Bhopal would be the second city to have an All India Institute of Medical Sciences campus, the first one being in Delhi.[7