Endosulfan row: Kerala gives Rs 5 cr solatium

Just in: The Kerala government has announced Rs 5 crore compensation for Endosulfan victims.

Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has been spearheading the agitation for countrywide ban on the manufacture, supply and use of the insecticide.
Endosulfan is an off-patent organochlorine insecticide and acaricide. The colourless solid has emerged as a highly controversial agrichemical due to its acute toxicity.
A Geneva Convention by the parties of Stockholm Convention decided to include endosulfan in the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) list last week, meaning that it would be eventually phased out from the world.
The insecticide is already banned in several European countries.