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HURDLES were created not only for proper medical treatment of the gas victims but also to prevent an estimate of the actual magnitude and gravity of the impact of the disaster on living beings and the environment.
For purposes of short- and long-term rehabilitation, a house-to-house survey was undertaken to build up the family profiles of those affected by the disaster. The Tata Institute of Social Work (TISS), Mumbai, assisted the government of Madhya Pradesh in carrying out this task. TISS also coordinated the work of nine other schools of social work, which were engaged in the same task.
Besides TISS, the other institutions that took part in the survey are the Indore Schools of Social Work (Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya); the Karve Institute of Social Service (Pune University); Faculty of Social Work (Baroda University); College of Social Work (Bombay University); Tirpude College of Social Work (Nagpur University); Institute of Social Work (Nagpur University); Department of Social Work, Centre for Studies in Rural Development, Ahmednagar College, (Pune University); the Department of Social Work (Kashi Vidyapith); and College of Social Work (Osmania University, Hyderabad).
The volunteer teams consisting of 474 students and 65 faculty members conducted a detailed survey from January 1, 1985 to February 12, 1985, covering all the localities of 10 wards of Bhopal and a few localities in six other wards and completed 25,294 family interviews.
