FACTORY SMOKE:11PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED

Trivandrum: Eleven people were hospitalized yesterday night due to exhibited symptoms of nausea and suffocation inhaling fumes from a clay manufacturing company functioning at the Kinfra compound at Menamkulam near Kazhakuttam Trivandrum

The people from pallithura came with armed with sticks and stones, and destroyed the factory vehicles and building of Ashapura Mine Chem Limited. According to the people of the Pallithura coastal ward, which falls within a five-kilometer radius of the factory, ever since the company started trial production of clay people have been falling sick from inhaling the smoke from its production unit

District Collector Sanjay Kaul too visited the spot late on Sunday and held talks with the representatives of the people at the Kazhakkuttom police station. At the end of the hour-long meeting, it was decided to shut down the factory for one month, during which time various departments, including the Pollution Control Board and the Health Department, will inspect the facilities at the factory