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Acid Gramam | ആസിഡ് ഗ്രാമം

Panmana village of the Chavara block panchayat in Kerala's Kollam district
has been claimed by deadly chemicals which have spread in all its
wards-Ponmana, Mekkad and Chittoor. The toxic effluents from the
government-owned Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited (KMML) plant in Chavara
have had a free run ever since the factory was set up in 1984, when it
began dumping deadly waste into a patch of ground within its premises.
Today, that little toxic spot has spread to cover the entire village. The
iron-oxide sludge mixed with acid and heavy metals has been leaking from
the old effluent ponds, where it had been accumulating for decades, causing
cancer and skin diseases. The plant produces titanium dioxide from
ilmenite, a mineral abundantly present in the black sand of the region
known as the Chavara belt. The canals which once had crystal-clear water
are now overflowing with foaming waste. Domestic wells and ponds have been
run over by pale effluents. The vegetation has been nearly wiped out.
Panmana, once a green patch by the sea, is a picture of industrial
apocalypse.

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