Endosulfan victims warn of hunger stir

  • | Thursday | 17th January, 2019

"We have sought to include 2,000 endosulfan victims identified in a special medical camp in the list of beneficiaries for compensation. It is sad that the state has not offered compensation to the victims, especially mothers and children, he said. We also want to include the 610 members removed from the 2017 list of 1,308 beneficiaries," Endosulfan Peeditha Janakeeya Munnani secretary Ambalathara Kunhikrishnan said in Kochi on Tuesday.In the official list, there are 6,212 people who are affected by the use of endosulfan and all affected should be compensated by the state. KOCHI: The victims of indiscriminate use of Endosulfan in the state have threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike on the Secretariat premises from January 30 against state's failure to release compensation.Under the aegis of 'Endosulfan Peeditha Janakeeya Munnani', the affected, mostly mothers, have asked the state government to implement the Supreme Court order issued in January last year to disburse Rs 5 lakh as compensation to all the victims on the official list.

KOCHI: The victims of indiscriminate use of Endosulfan in the state have threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike on the Secretariat premises from January 30 against state's failure to release compensation.Under the aegis of 'Endosulfan Peeditha Janakeeya Munnani', the affected, mostly mothers, have asked the state government to implement the Supreme Court order issued in January last year to disburse Rs 5 lakh as compensation to all the victims on the official list. "We have sought to include 2,000 endosulfan victims identified in a special medical camp in the list of beneficiaries for compensation. We also want to include the 610 members removed from the 2017 list of 1,308 beneficiaries," Endosulfan Peeditha Janakeeya Munnani secretary Ambalathara Kunhikrishnan said in Kochi on Tuesday.In the official list, there are 6,212 people who are affected by the use of endosulfan and all affected should be compensated by the state. It is sad that the state has not offered compensation to the victims, especially mothers and children, he said.

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