Pithampur, located in Dhar district, 250 km from Bhopal, is known as the "Detroit of India". It has over 700 manufacturing outfits, including automobile-manufacturing units.
The waste from the December 1984 disaster at the Union Carbide factory reached the industrial town's incineration facility on Thursday, triggering protests led by the Pithampur Bachao Samiti.
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