Plachimada: panel to study damage

The Water Resources Department has constituted an expert committee to
study the nature and extent of losses suffered by the people of
Plachimada as a result of the operation of the Coca-Cola plant there.
The committee is headed by the Agricultural Production Commissioner.
Expert in community medicine C.R. Soman, ecologist S. Faizi, the
former sessions judge T.K. Raman, chairman of the State Pollution
Control Board, Director of Health Services, Director of Animal
Husbandry and officials from the Central Ground Water Department,
Kerala Agriculture University and Kerala Water Authority are its
members.

The Hindu, June 20