Under the banner of the National Alliance of Peoples Movements (NAPM), the ANTI-Coco-Cola Plachimada Plant Agitation will begin in Trivandrum from 17 May. The agitation will start with a mass rally at 11 a.m followed by an indefinite dharna in front of the Government Secretariat. NAPM National Coordinator Medha Patkar will be inaugurating the dharna.

The demand of the protestors is closure of the Coco-Cola Plachimada plant permanently. The three-year-long struggle in front of the plant will continue. The case - whether a village Panchayat has the right to refuse ground water being extracted by a private company - is now in the Supreme Court. The apex court is hearing a petition filed by the Perumatty Village Panchayat against a High Court order allowing a bottling plant of Hindustan Coco-Cola Beverages Ltd in the village to draw 500,000 litres of ground water per day. The High Court had asked the Panchayat to grant licence to the company within two weeks provided the company had required clearances under the Factories Act and from the State Pollution Control Board. The pollution control board has already refused to give the clearance. An action committee has been formed. A team of tribals from Plachimada will be present right through the agitation. Though the agitation is under the banner of NAPM, many other organisations are expected to join.