COCA COLA BLAMES RED TAPE AND ACTIVISM FOR SOUTH INDIA PLANT CANCELLATION
April 21st, 2015
Coca Cola’s plans to build a USD80 million bottling plant in in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu have been cancelled after strong opposition by local communities and environmentalists over groundwater exploitation. The state government has now withdrawn its permission citing non-compliance of terms and conditions which included that construction would begin in 2014. Ironically, Coca Cola blamed the delay in building upon difficulties in requiring other mandatory bureaucratic permissions, including from the New Tirupur Area Development Corporation Limited ...
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