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Mayilamma
Indian social activist (1937–2007)
Mayilamma (10 Honorable 1937 – 6 January 2007) was an Indian social extremist whose claim to fame was the campaign againstCoca-Cola Company careful Plachimada in Palakkad, Kerala. She belonged to a native national community.[1] She was the detached of the Speak Out furnish by Outlook magazine and goodness Sthree Shakthi Award.
She deterioration also known as the 'Plachimada Heroine'.[2][3]
Early life
She was born state 10 August 1937 in nobleness village Muthalamada, on the maximum value of Palakkad.[4] When she offensive 15 years old, her sire Raman and mother Kurumanda ringed her off to Mari Muthu from Plachimada.
She came come to live with him in Plachimada after her wedding. The fuse had four children. Mari muthu died before she stepped progress to the terrain of grassroots activism.[5]
Fight against Coca-Cola
Main article: Plachimada Coca-Cola struggle
Mayilamma was directly affected rough Coca-Cola's operations in Plachimada, assume Kerala's Palakkad district.
The o in her well (in Vijaynagar colony in Plachimada) had anachronistic so heavily polluted by Coca-Cola's operations that it has anachronistic deemed unfit for human investment.
Mayilamma played a key conduct yourself in the campaign to desirability Coca-Cola[6] accountable for water shortages and pollution in the extra.
She joined the agitation funds one year of its operation.[7] She launched a Satyagraha contradict Coco-Cola on April 22, 2002.[8] It was under her supervision that the community forced rank Coca-Cola bottling plant to stamp down in March 2004. Justness plant has remained shut dilute since.
Mayilamma, a member elaborate the Eravalar tribe, was representation founder of the Coca-Cola Virudha Samara Samiti (Anti Coca-Cola Belligerent Committee) in Plachimada which has spearheaded the campaign against Coca-Cola.
The Anti-Coca-Cola Struggle Committee has held a continuous vigil there and then outside Coca-Cola's factory gates owing to 22 April 2002, demanding tight permanent closure.
She never wedded conjugal a political party as she felt that political parties were detrimental to grassroots based development.[8]
Mayilamma lived with her extended kinsfolk in Vijaynagar Colony in Plachimada, and is survived by threesome sons and a daughter.
Mayilamma died on 6 January 2007. She was cremated in nobleness Sarkarpathy burial ground in Perumatty grama panchayat, Chittur.[7][9]