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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Endosulfan ban: Kerala team to meet Prime Minister

Endosulfan ban: Kerala team to meet Prime Minister

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published Published on Apr 21, 2011   modified Modified on Apr 21, 2011
State will observe April 25 as Anti-Endosulfan Day

Mass pledge in all districts on Monday

81 countries have banned Endosulfan

The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to send an all-party delegation to the Centre to press for India's support to the proposal for global ban on Endosulfan at the conference of parties of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy will head the delegation which will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and urge him that the country should support the proposal.

Briefing the media after a Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan noted that the expert committee of the Convention had recommended global ban on Endosulfan after 10 years of studies.

India was opposing the ban without even considering the scope for getting funding from the United Nations for using alternatives to Endosulfan. Already, 81 countries had banned the pesticide while 27 were undecided.

The Chief Minister said the Centre had not yet shown willingness to give any aid to the State for payment of compensation to the victims of Endosulfan and their rehabilitation. It had submitted a compensation package of Rs.217 crore as directed by the National Human Rights Commission and a rehabilitation package of Rs.125 crore for Central assistance.

He said 16 teams had studied the effect of Endosulfan on the people of Kasaragod district during the past 10 years. It was cruel for the Centre to insist on subjecting the victims to further studies. The Centre was scoffing at the victims and the people.

The Chief Minister said that Kerala would observe April 25, the day on which the conference of parties begins in Geneva, Switzerland, as Anti-Endosulfan Day. Mass pledges would be taken at all district headquarters on the day against Endosulfan. A Minister would be in charge of organising the protest in each district. The Chief Minister will attend the function in Thiruvananthapuram.

The Hindu, 21 April, 2011, http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/21/stories/2011042159710100.htm


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