Cases / Pesticides and agrochemicals · India · 2011–2022
Compensation for Kerala endosulfan victims reported delayed
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Compensation for victims of the pesticide endosulfan in Kasaragod, Kerala, was reported delayed between 2011 and 2022, according to Down To Earth. The sources reviewed give no verified figures for victims or payments, so the scale of the harm is not established here.
What?
Compensation for endosulfan victims in Kasaragod was reported delayed. Down To Earth
Where?
Kasaragod, Kerala, India Down To Earth
When?
2011 to 2022 Down To Earth
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
None on recordHarmed
- Endosulfan victims in Kasaragod, Kerala — Compensation reported delayed Down To Earth
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Not described in verified terms in the sources reviewed.
6 of 6 questions answered from the record
What happened
The record, in order.
Down To Earth tracked the delay in endosulfan compensation for victims in Kerala between 2011 and 2022.
The outlet describes the endosulfan case as a decades-long tragedy in Kerala.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: aerial spraying of endosulfan on cashew estates run by a Kerala state plantation corporation, from 1976 to 1978 until 2000 to 2001.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: 6,727 victims identified; a 2017 Supreme Court compensation order; payment approved for 977 people in February 2026.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: compensation of 500,000 rupees for each of 6,727 people.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: India objected to listing endosulfan under the Stockholm Convention.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: no penalty recorded against any producer, with the Kerala state bearing the cost.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts✓ Press and investigations— Communities and civil society— Researchers
Press and investigations
- Tracking decades-long endosulfan tragedy in KeralaDown To Earth · 2011–2022
Connected cases
Related matters, and cases linked to this one through the same organisations, with the role each played in both.
- Kasaragod endosulfan victims still awaiting compensation after court order India · date not stated
- Government of Kerala (Government) — here: state government; reported as responsible for compensation; there: Pays compensation to victims
- Western Ghats protection plan left unimplemented; Wayanad villages were listed India · 2011–2024
- Government of Kerala (Government) — here: state government; reported as responsible for compensation; there: opposed the proposal