ENDOSULFAN- INDIA’S STAND WRONG

ENDOSULFAN- INDIA’S STAND WRONG

Forest minister Benoy Viswom has criticised the stand taken by India against global ban on Endosulfan at the sixth meeting of persistent organic pollutants Review Committee to the Stockholm Convention.
India’s stand was not right. Mr Viswom said that the Indian government should not have become the spokesman of the pesticides lobby at the meeting.” If you go to Kasaragod, you can see the effect of Endosulfan on the people. Many affected were in such a condition that they could be described as the living dead. The corporate companies were marketing Endosulfan for profit at the cost of lives.
The Committee meeting attended by 29 member countries recommended ban on manufacture, use, import and export of endosulfan with certain exemption to the conference of parties of the Stockholm convention. India dropped out of the discussion towards the end and did not participate in voting
Prof: John Kurakar