Abstract Between 1976 and 2000, more than 50,000 villagers of Kasargod district in Kerala, India have been exposed to endosulfan, a persistent organic pesticide, sprayed on the cashew plantations owned by the Plantation Corporation of Kerala. The Kerala government has imposed a complete ban on the use of the pesticide endosulfan, which is alleged to have led to congenital deformities and even deaths in the states Kasargod district. ; Autopsies on the birds last winter showed no evidence of endosulfan poisoning. Sruthi was born with deformed limbs. After the ban As the court hearing has proceeded in the last year, there have been several attempts made by the endosulfan The Commission has been informed that, though the Government of Kerala forbids the use of endosulfan, this ban has been easily circumvented. Story of endosulfan, the slow state-sponsored genocide, which poisoned Kerala Ambikasutan Mangal, author of Swarga, on how he came to write the story of a pesticide that left death in its wake. The state government also issued a ban order in 2003. As per the recommendations of the National Human Rights Commission, the UDF government had sanctioned Rs 104.40 crore and Rs 46.31 crore for disbursing monthly pension and other benefits. Neethu Reghukumar , January 27, 2016, 8:55 am explore: Politics Endosulfan victims protest outside Ommen Chandys residence Government sources said that over the last ten years the government spent Rs. Eighty-one countries have either banned it or are in the process of banning it. The commission has now issued summon for anaction taken report to be submitted by June 4, 2012 or appear before the commission on June 16, 2012. Speaking on the sidelines of the sixth Pan-Commo In Kasargod, aerial spraying stopped in Both tragedies had the same causea pesticide called endosulfan that had been Continue reading "Kerala versus Endosulfan" The National Human Rights Commission, however, did not turn a blind eye to the suffering, and ordered that compensation be paid within eight weeks in 2010. The evidence mounted against endosulfan. Endosulfan is an off-patent organochlorine insecticide and acaricide that is being phased out .. More than 3000 people living near, downstream and downwind of the estate were affected by debilitating rare diseases like 0000001647 00000 n The Government of Kerala and the Plantation Corporation of Kerala are responsible for it.1. New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission has cautioned Kerala that it will be forced to move Supreme Court if the state government does not pay adequate compensation to endosulfan victims. But environment activists are demanding a country-wide ban of the pesticide, already banned in over 60 countries. While the focus earlier was on Padre village, the health impacts are evident in people of nearly 11 panchayats in the district. The Commissions recommendations still remain ignored. He contends there are no studies to prove that endosulfan is harmful. About 5,000 people were poisoned with endosulfan between 1975 and 2000 when the Plantation Corporation of Kerala, a public sector plantation company, sprayed endosulfan The Commission, on December 31, 2010, ordered that the Government of Kerala should pay at least Rs.
Victims here are suffering from congenital deformities, physical disabilities, mental retardation and gynecological problems. Endosulfan is considered as Persistent organic Pollutant (PoP) in Stockholm Convention held in Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has recommended the government to conduct an epidemiological study on the impact of endosulfan, a ; Endosulfan is a neurotoxin that attacks insects through the central nervous system. An endosulfan-based insecticide, on sale in Karnataka in 2010. The formulation that was sprayed contained about 0.05-0.1 per cent of endosulfan [2]. The government, on Tuesday, issued orders approving the recommendations of the National Human Rights Commission to pay compensation to the victims of endosulfan Kerala government on Monday announced a comprehensive package, including free treatment, ration and pension, to people affected by the aerial spraying of pesticide endosulfan in Kasargod district. Now, the Indian press is reporting another cluster of endosulfan-induced disease a couple hundred miles After that, the protests were all about the non-compliance to the Commissions order. ; A day earlier he had sprayed the field with the pesticide endosulfan. Endosulfan was sprayed in Kerala, on two days each year on cashew plantations from a helicopter. After a public outcry, Endosulfan was banned in Kerala in 2002. Renowned agriculture scientist M. S. Swaminathan has complimented the Kerala government for its decision to ban the use of Endosulfan across the State. The organisers said the Kerala Human Rights Commission had five years ago ordered the government to disburse the compensation. Kerala government on Monday did not give a commitment to National Human Rights Commission on paying compensation to the kin of those who died due to endosulfan, though it agreed to pay monetary relief to the disabled victims. Endosulfan Spray Protest Action Committee (ESPAC). The Government of Kerala has even banned the sale of the pesticide. Package for endosulfan victims in Kerala. The Commission, accepting the proposal, has asked the State government to pay monetary relief in a similar manner to the families of those who succumbed to diseases caused by Endosulfan. Finally, in 2002, the Kerala high court banned the sale and use of endosulfan in Kerala. It has been more than a dozen years since health professionals in north Kerala started noticing unusual health disorders in the tracts where there had been aerial spraying of the pesticide endosulfan on cashew plantations. The scourge of endosulfan began in the 1970s in north Keralas Kasargode district when Plantation Corporation, a state PSU started aerial spraying of the pesticide in cashew farms. This inspired protests, and the pesticide was banned in Kerala as early as , following a report by the National Institute of Occupational Health. Subsequently, the National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH) Ahmedabad, carried out a compre- On Wednesday morning, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy posted on Facebook announcing that the government will sponsor the education of Shruti, an endosulfan affected person. term exposure to endosulfan (David 2001; Joshi 2001; and The Hindu (2001)), the commission had intervened in the matter and filed a writ petition as a public interest litigation in the Kerala High Court against the use of endosulfan. How the state made the Indian Government fall in line with a global ban on endosulfan Sruthi, a student of Government Higher Secondary School, Padre, in Kasaragod, Kerala, was just three when her mother died of cancer. KASARGOD: The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has asked Kasargod collector D Sajith Babu to explain why houses built for endosulfan survivors in Pawar reiterated his inability to ban at a meeting with National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) officials in Delhi on April 19. It is considered by many experts in the field of pesticide toxicity as one of the worst pesticide disasters to happen to a region and its people. The chemical is banned in 80 countries, but was used in Kerala for aerial crop spraying for 20 years. 2001. A White Paper on the Report on the Visit of the Expert Team Constituted by the Kerala Agriculture University for Investigating the Environmental Effects of Aerial Sprayed Endosulfan on Cashew The suffering caused by years of endosulfan use on cashew plantations in Kerala's Kasaragod district is well known: birth defects, high rates of mental retardation, and delayed puberty, in addition to the hundreds of deaths directly attributed to the antiquated insecticide. Kerala bans endosulfan after 500 deaths over 20 years. Union agriculture ministry banned use of endosulfan in Kerala in 2005.; Later the commission changed its finding to endosulfan, a strong pesticide. In India, Kerala and Karnataka have banned it. Surveys, studies and countless media reports have brought out the burden of endosulfan. The Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that there are many endosulfan victims in Kerala and that the relief, which was The Government of Kerala instituted an Expert Commission headed by A. Achyuthan and the National Human Rights Commission instituted the Natio-nal Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH) to investigate into the issue separately. The Achyuthan Commission and the NIOH3 that studied the issue in 2001 and 2002 respectively, recommen- 3 R `j [ ~ : w ! 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