Date:21/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/21/stories/2008102159320400.htm

Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram

‘Make Coke pay up’

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The activist groups behind the long-drawn-out agitation that forced the closure of the Coca-Cola bottling plant at Plachimada in Palakkad have urged the government to set up a high power committee headed by a High Court judge to decide on the compensation the multi-national company should pay for the environmental damage the bottling plant had caused to the area.

They submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister, V.S. Achuthanandan and Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran on Monday.