Kerala House passes Bill to form Plachimada tribunal to pay compensation to the victims of environmental hazards of a Coca-cola bottling unit in Plachimada, in Kerala
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Kerala House passes Bill to form Plachimada tribunal to pay compensation to the victims of environmental hazards of a Coca-cola bottling unit in Plachimada, in Kerala

Palakkad : India | Mar 01, 2011 at 6:05 AM PST
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In a trail-blazing legislative initiative, the Kerala Assembly on Thursday passed the Plachimada Coca-Cola Victims Relief and Compensation Claims Special Tribunal Bill 2011 to secure for the inhabitants of Plachimada in Palakkad district compensation for the ecological damage caused by the Coca Cola unit that used to function in the village.

The Bill, the latest outcome of a protracted people's struggle which saw the Coca Cola unit being closed down in 2005 and an almost two-year-long exercise to quantify the damage provides for constitution of a three-member tribunal to be chaired by a person in the rank of a district judge and having an administrative member and an expert member. The tribunal would have all the powers under the Code of Civil Procedure and a two-year tenure.

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