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Hindustan Insecticides Ltd (Eloor, Kerala, India)
Company details Hindustan Insecticides Ltd (HIL)
Eloor
Udyogamandal
Kerala
India.
Fully owned by the Government of India. Has three factories
producing insecticides – DDT, Endosulfan, Dicofol etc.
Address:
SCOPE Complex
Core-6
Lodhi Road
New Delhi 110003 1
Phone: +91-11-4362165/4364549/4362116
Email: hilhq@nde.vsnl.net.in
Date of Incorporation: 1 March, 1954
Managing Director is the CEO and is appointed by Government of
India.
Paid up capital (31.3.00) INR 507.5 million
GoI shareholding (31.3.00) INR 507.5 million(100%)
Net worth (31.3.00) INR 144.6 million
Net Loss (31.3.00) INR 140.8 million
Accumulated Loss INR 213.1 million 117
Location of damage Eloor, Ernakulam District, Kerala State, India.
Company activity Pesticide Production: The plant produces DDT, Dicofol and
Endosulfan and also hydrochloric acid/sulphuric acid as by products.
Type of incident The plant has caused permanent contamination and emits pollutants.
HIL releases effluents contaminated with DDT and metabolites,
Endosulfan and derivatives, BHC and other chemicals including
highly toxic organochlorines into a public stream 118 . Sulfur dioxide,
carbon monoxide, HCl acid mist and chlorine are emitted from the
stacks 119 .
Type of damage According to a Greenpeace investigation/sampling in 1999, the
effluent stream shared by this factory with Fertilisers And Chemicals
Travancore (FACT) and Merchem Ltd, two neighbouring plants,
contains 111 toxic chemicals of which 39 are organochlorines. The
contaminants have been identified to be linked to the releases from
the HIL 120 . The primary effluent let out into the stream reaches the
River Periyar, which is the drinking water source of the entire city of
Cochin and Aluva and the source of livelihood for thousands of
117 Government of India, Dept of Disinvestment, New Delhi. http://divest.nic.in/psu-returned/hinduinsecticides.htm )
118 Toxic Hotspots: An Investigation on Hindustan Insecticides Limited, Udyogamandal : A Greenpeace Report, 1999
119 Source: Kerala State Pollution Control Board, Ernakulam Regional Office.
120 Toxic Hotspots: An Investigation on Hindustan Insecticides Limited, Udyogamandal: A Greenpeace Report, 1999
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