Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
India is strangely reluctant to ban this pesticide despite mounting evidence of its collateral damage As the stage is set for the crucial meeting of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP), a global regime to protect human health and the environment from dangerous chemicals, to be held in …
Eighty-one countries have either banned endosulfan or are in the process of banning it. As the fifth Conference of Parties (COP) of the Stockholm Convention meets in Geneva from April 25 to April 30 to decide the fate of the pesticide, India still remains in denial mode.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran wrote to Union Minister of Agriculture Sharad Pawar on Wednesday urging him to initiate urgent action to ban the manufacture and use of Endosulfan and its formulations under different trade names in the country and also to move the Stockholm Convention for a consensus to …
KASARAGOD: The district, where Endosulfan has wreaked havoc on lives in 11 panchayat areas, will witness massive agitations from Monday to mount pressure on the Union government to vote against the use of the deadly pesticide at the Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in …
Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar is rooting for endosulfan just before the fifth Conference of Parties (COP) of the Stockholm Convention meets in Geneva India softens its stand on endosulfan Day 5- April 29: The last day of the Stockholm Convention, ushered some good news for all those crusading against …
Day 5: April 29 The last day of the Stockholm Convention, ushered some good news for all those crusading against endosulfan in India. Endosulfan has finally been brought under the Annex A of the Stockholm Convention, which means that Endosulfan should be banned globally. Endosulfan: meet in Geneva begins, India …
On Monday, when the four-day Stockholm convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants begins in Geneva, Kerala would observe Anti-endosulfan Day with government-sponsored programmes across the state. Besides, an all-party delegation would meet the Prime Minister, demanding pan-Indian ban on the pesticide. Last year, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) proposed a …
Centre weighed down by plant-protection cost Package for victims may be more costly THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Centre government is ruling out a national ban on Endosulfan or support for the cause at the Stockholm Convention on the ground that no cheap alternatives to Endosulfan are available to farmers. But the Centre …
ALAPPUZHA: Senior Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran on Tuesday came down heavily on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and the Union Ministries of Agriculture, Health and Environment, accusing them of being party to the interests of what he termed the Endosulfan lobby, and of not doing what they should have done. …
KASARAGOD: Mothers cried recounting the plight of their children affected by Endosulfan in parts of the district at a protest meeting here on Tuesday seeking a ban on the pesticide. The meeting, held ahead of the conference of parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants scheduled from April …
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala, on Monday, wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging him to ensure that India took a strong stand on banning Endosulfan at a conference of parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants beginning in Geneva on April 25. He said …
KASARAGOD: The media have not adequately projected the hazards of prolonged aerial spraying of Endosulfan in the Plantation Corporation of Kerala's cashew estates in the district, says media critic A. Jayashankar.
Anxieties over possibility of the offspring bearing congenital disorders due to Endosulfan poisoning are reportedly forcing women of Kasaragod in Kerala
The world will be watching India as the conference of parties to the Stockholm Convention meet in Geneva from April 25 to 29 to discuss, among other things, a global ban on the pesticide endosulfan. India was the only member country to take a stand against the ban at the …
KASARAGOD: Narayana Naik, 70, whose name was on the official list of victims of Endosulfan sprayed on cashew estates in 11 panchayat limits in the district, died of liver complications in his house at Bedirampalla, near Perla, on Monday, official sources here said. He had been undergoing prolonged treatment for …
Evidence is mounting on the ill-effects of Endosulfan sprayed on cashew plantations in Kasaragod district, even as the Union government continues to be ambivalent on the issue. A survey done by the Health Department has identified nearly 4,000 victims after screening 16,000. The household survey and the screening done in …
Report of the Community Based Study : Epidemiological study of health status of Population at Kasaragode District, Kerala. www.cseindia.org/userfiles/endo-study_brief.pdf
The “Endosulfan poisoning “ at Kasargod was first reported in the media in 1979 by Sri. Shreepadre farm journalist from the village Padre. The Plantation Corporation of Kerala started areal spraying of endosulfan in its cashew plantations in Kasargod district in 1976. The struggle against aerial spraying was started as …
