The Anticocacola struggle commitee staged a Dharna in front of Kerala Pollution Control Board DisrtictOffice Palghat 0n Sept 2. More than three hunderd people including women from Plachimada took part in the Dharna.

Plachimada Solidarity Committee executive commitee and leaders of the struggle commitee jointly met at Palakkad on 23 August 2006 and decided to hold a dharna on September 20th in front of the district office of the  ground water department, Palakkad.

The meeting reviewed the developments related to struggle as well as the recent developments such as the government to ban on production and sale of Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola in the Kerala state and the consequent cases in the High Court by the companies agaunst the orders.

The meeting welcomed the government's quick response to impose the ban and hoped that the Ministry of Health of the Government of India would immediately notify the BIS on soft drinks without any delay. The meeting strongly condemned the US government representative's veiled threat to India in the light of this ban with regard to foreign investment.  This is merely an attempt to protect the criminal US based Soft Drink MNCs.

The meeting also expressed its dismay that a similar strong action against Coca Cola for poisoning the ground water in Plachimada has not been initiated. The meeting resolved:
1. The struggle would be intensified and expanded learning from excperience of the struggle thus far bringing into the its ambit the larger issues of rights and governance of water

2. It was decided that the following key demands would be the immediate focus:
a) The ban on production and sale be extended under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act to all other soft drinks products that have been reported to contain dangerous levels of pesticide and other chemicals;
b) The Kerala Government immediately file cases and initiate criminal proceedings against HCCBPL for polluting the ground water in Plachimada with toxic carcinogenic metals such as Cadmium and Lead which has been found by various agencies , both government and private laboratories.
c) The Kerala Government should initiate testing of ground water for its quality in the areas surrounding the Coca Cola Plant at Plachimada to (i) to assess the extent of the spread of toxic chemicals in the ground water in Plachimada and (ii) the extent of the toxic chemicals in them 
d) The Kerala Government should initiate a state level mapping of the quality of ground water  in all the blocks of Kerala State, finalise the standards for safe, semi-critical, critical and dangerous as has been done for quantity of water and to extend the authority of the Kerala Ground Water Authority to the issue of quality of ground water. These results should be made public as soon as it is completed.
e) The government should immediately impose a total ban on all industrial production in all the 5 blocks that have been declared 'Notified Area' under the Kerala Ground Water Act 2002 of all products where the primary raw material is water and in addition and/or the primary content of the product is water and in addition the product is a non-essential good.
f) The government review the Kerala Panchayat Act for the explicit purpose of bring the subject of 'ground water' under the control of the Gram Sabha to re-establish directly the peoples and village communitiy's rights and power over ground water. Water is too precious to be left to others.

The meeting also worked out immediate plans to lauch agitation in Plachimada, Palakkad and Thiruvananthapuram on the various demands. 

The meeting was attended by Vilayodi Venugopal, Velur Swaminathan, CR,Neelakantan, CR Bijoy, Esabinabdul Karim, Ptm Hussain Master, Sheffik, Sundararaj, Sulaiman. R.Ajayan convener of the solidarity commitee presented the detailed report of the meeting.