- The Coca cola company is an American multinational corporation founded in 1892.
- It is the largest beverage manufacturer and distributor in the world.
- The headquarter of this company is in Atlanta,Georgia.
- Coca cola produces and sells soft drinks and many beverage with more than 2800 products available in 200 countries.
Unethical practices in India
Kerala Case
- Coca cola opened a plant at Plachimada, a village in Kerala to produce 1.2 m liters every day.
- It takes 9 liters of clean water to prepare a liter Coke.
- Local Panchyat issued licence to the company to use motorized pump in the village.
- Coca cola drilled more than six wells and illegally installed high powered electricity motor pump to extract millions of liter clean water.
- Water level in the village fell down from 45 to 150 meter below the surface.
- Company started dumping waste outside causing a serious health hazards.
Kala Dera Case
- Kala dera is a large village outside the city Jaipur, Rajasthan.
- Coca cola started its operation in the village and within a year villagers started to notice a rapid decline in underground water level.
- Primary work of the village is agriculture and due to declined ground water they directly faces crops failures, loss of income.
- The community in Kala dera organized strike against the company for the worsening water condition and dumping waste.
Unethical response of the Company
- The Coca cola company took seven months to respond in these cases.
- Company chosen to continue the operation in India.
- Coca cola announce to the world that they are socially responsible company, So what about Kerala and Kala dera unethical practices.
- The Company is the single largest plastic polluter in the world.
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