The construction of the Vidhwa Colony of around 2,500 flats was completed in the early 1990s. It was meant to house the widows of the gas tragedy, one of the world’s biggest chemical disasters.
More than five lakh people were affected and over 15,000 were killed after methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984 which was then located on the outskirts of Bhopal.