Content of the memorandum submitted to the Legislative committee on environment, Government of Kerala, at Palakkad Collectorate conference hall, today (10th June, 2009).
Humble submission before Hon: Legislative committee on environment.
Subjects demanding urgent attention, enquiry and action are submitted below:
1. Requesting eviction of encroachment on the banks of River Bharathapuzha and its tributaries such as Kalpathy, Korayar, Varattayar, Chittur puzha, Gayathri Puzha, Ayiloor puzha, Thoothapuzha and Kunthipuzha. Letters and complaints submitted to the Chief minister and the District collectors 3 years back with satellite images and photographs didn’t find any action.
2. The ecosystem of these rivers had already damaged by unethical sand mining activity. Numerous plant and animal species disappeared, water turned polluted, conflicts and quarrels started everywhere in the villages of Palakkad due to water scarcity and related to ownership of the awailable water.
3. The dredging operation in Purathur of Ponnani river mouth resulted in extinction of sand islands where the migrant birds used as feeding ground, the activity resulted to increase the inward flow from sea water which polluted the pure river water by salt water contamination. The effect is experiencing up to Ottappalam which is still moving towards the up streams of river Bharathapuzha.
4. Pollution caused to soil, water and air by the industrial companies and Pepsi like multi national corporate still continues even after implementing legal steps by the government.
5. There is no solution is found to the environmental hazards made by the windmills in Attapadi. By blocking the elephants tracts by the suzlon company, elephants started moving in human habitation area and resulted in killing peoples in the last year. The situation getting worse and worse.
6. Killing of elephants and other wildlife by train hits in walayar forests continues. The recommendation demanding shift of railway tracks from forest areas shall be taken at utmost importance.
7.Urgent action requested to the unauthorised activities such as converting agricultural lands to barren lands, land filling, pond filling, obtaining Kerala Land Utilisation certificate (KLU) through illegal way etc. action requested to stop issuing KLUs to the lands which was cultivable before10 years.
8.Permanent solution requested to the forest encroachment, finalizing ecologically feasible EFL (Ecologically Fragile Land) Laws and Rules and bill on protecting paddy filed and watershed areas.
9.Include Thoothanpara and such forest areas in the core zone of Parambikulam Tiger Reserve.
10. Ban chemicals and pesticides in the field of agriculture (which directly pollutes Bharathapuzha and its tributaries).
Faithfully by,
S.Guruvayurappan,
Co-ordinator, Aashrayam Rural Development Society, Kollengode, Palakkad, Kerala.
South Indian co-ordinator, Wildlife Protection Society of India – New delhi.
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Result:
The legislative committee on environment took up the issues (submitted and explained before the committee and the audience by the NGO co-ordinator) seriously and made the major recommendation to enforce strict action to the encroachers of Bharathapuzha and its tributaries. The same was the leading news on print and media with regard to the meeting.
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