Rights panel submits recommendations to government
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has urged the State government to distribute the uncultivated land in the custody of the Plantation Corporation of Kerala (PCK) to the families of the individuals affected by Endosulfan toxicity in Kasaragod district.
The commission also recommended the closure of the corporation's
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Health Minister P K Sreemathi said that the State Government had entrusted the District Medical Officer to ensure medicines and medical equipment for Endosulfan victims in Kasargod district. While making a statement under Rule 300 in the Assembly on Monday, the Minister said that a physiotherapy unit was being set up at the Kasargod General Hospital.
Kerala government has been pressing the Centre to impose a country-wide ban on endosulfan. But its own track reocrd hasn't been impressive. The ban on endosulfan in Kerala has proved ineffective and the pesticide is being smuggled in the state. A recent survey shows more children are falling victim, Down To Earth reports.
In 2001, taking cognizance of reports in the media that the aerial spraying of the pesticide endosulfan in the District of Kasaragod in Kerala had led to severe health hazards, the Commission asked the Indian Council of Medical Research for a report which was submitted in July, 2002 by one of its constituent institutions, the National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH), after a thorough envir
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State government has sought a Rs.100-crore Central package for rehabilitation of the Endosulfan victims of Kasaragod district, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan told the Assembly on Thursday.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala government today renewed its demand for a country wide ban on the use of endosulfan pesticide and wanted the Centre to announce a rehabilitation package to a tune of Rs.100 crores to the persons suffering from the ill-effects of ensulfan in the state.
Replying to a calling attention in the assembly to the problems faced by the people due to the usage of endosulfan in
Kasaragod: A charitable trust has come forward to adopt needy victims of Endosulfan pesticide by taking care of their accommodation, medical treatment and other basic requirements.
Kozhikode: A regional office of the Kerala State Handicapped Persons' Welfare Corporation will be opened in the city soon, Uzhavoor Vijayan, chairman of the Corporation, has said.
At a press conference here on Friday, he said for the welfare of Endosulfan victims, the Corporation would send a three-member delegation to Kasaragod.
The delegation would assess the extent of damage caused by the
