The Perumatty Village Council gave a licence to the company to commence production in 2000. Black polluted water such as this can be found in Plachimada's wells.ġ999: Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola company, established a plant in Plachimada. The company did not respond to emails asking for comment on the situation. Protests against the Coca-Cola factories have taken place in a number of districts including Mehdiganj near Varanasi, Kala Dera near Jaipur, Thane district in Maharashtra and Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu. There have been numerous public protests against the company’s operations throughout India, involving thousands of citizens and several non-governmental organisations. Water is the primary component of the products manufactured by the company. The company has the largest soft drink bottling facilities in India. Coca-Cola and its subsidiaries have been accused of creating severe water shortages for the community by extracting large quantities of water for their factories, affecting both the quantity and quality of water in a number of districts of India. Plachimada resident Murugesan says water from wells in the area cannot be used for drinking, cooking or bathing. The water from the wells cannot be used for consumption,” he added. But now, since the water has been poisoned, while the others use the sweet water from the wells, we have to queue up near the taps for our water needs. In older days we could just take water from the wells with our hands, the wells used to be so full. “The whole district is happy due to the rains. “This is the monsoon time,” said Murugesan, a resident of Plachimada. There are about 2,000 residents in this south Kerala village, and their main occupation is agriculture and farm labour. The Coca-Cola unit, which has been shut since 2004, has been accused of having depleted the water source, exploited and “wilfully polluted” the ground water of the Scheduled Tribes community called the Eravalas, at Plachimada, in Palakkad district, Kerala.
The case has been registered at Meenakshipuram Police Station against the company's all India head at Noida, Regional head at Kochi and the local head of the Plachimada unit, on a complaint lodged by Plachimada Samara Samithi. Only then we realised that our water had been poisoned."Īs many like her recount their plight, Kerala police last month filed a fresh First Information Report against Coca-Cola under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
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When we used that water, our eyes and skin had a burning sensation. "Initially, we did not know the reason for it. “Once the factory opened the water level in the wells started going down,” Kanniamm added. 70-year-old Kanniamma recounts a time from before the Coca-Cola factory when they had sweet water in their wells “Before the factory opened here we were dependent on our water requirements on our wells,” she said. Rain from the fresh monsoons was badgering the roof of her house at Vijayanagaram colony in Plachimada village of Palakkad district in Kerala, but the water would be of no use to her once it settled on the soil.įor Kanniamma, it was more than a bitter taste left behind by the Coca-Cola plant that was forced to shut down in her neighbourhood in 2004. ‘Your English in Marathi accent is so sexy’: The popular video trend continues with a new versionįor 70-year-old K Kanniamma, the irony was stark.Aryan Khan case: NCB used same witness in five other cases since last year.Muttiah Muralidaran column: India too reliant on Jasprit Bumrah, need a more balanced bowling attack.Watch: Radha Yadav’s brilliant reflex catch to dismiss Harmanpreet Kaur in Women’s Big Bash League.
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