Decision on Coca Cola report soon: Kerala CM

Decision soon on a committee's recommendation to realise compensation of Rs 216 crore from Coca OCla

PTI | June 9, 2010



Kerala government would soon take a decision on a committee's recommendation to realise compensation of Rs 216 crore from Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Company Ltd for damages caused to people, chief minister V S Achuthanandan said.

The cabinet was examining the report of the High-Power Committee headed by additional chief secretary K Jayakumar which submitted its recommendations on March 22, Achuthanandan told reporters after a cabinet meeting.

A decision on the report of the chief secretary, who sought an explanation from senior bureaucrat T Balakrishnan for his expression of regret over failure to save the Coca Cola plant at Plachimada, would be also taken soon, he said.

The chief secretary had submitted the report to cabinet, Achuthanandan said to a question.

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