Key Highlights
- They had seen the hue all over the ground and even in their waters long ago.
- The colour came from the residues left behind by a dye making unit, closed down 44 years ago.
- The residues remaining intact in the soil around the property where Mangalam Dyes and Chemicals and its allied unit Southern Organic Chemicals functioned could be posing a public health and environmental risk, going by experiences of the residents in the area.
- The companies, started by the late M. I.
- Itty from Kottayam, who had a PhD in Organic Chemistry, in the early 1970s were liquidated by the Kerala High Court in 1982 after it became insolvent.
