Kerala govt yet to back off from waste treatment project
The entire residents of Peringamala had taken out a march to protest the setting up of the plant.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Despite widespread protest by Peringamala natives against setting up of a decentralised waste management plant, the state government has left them hanging without taking a final call on the project.
The protest by the residents of Peringamala have reached 231 days and the action council is planning to carry out a couple of surveys on wildlife including fish, dragonflies in the coming week to bring the attention of the government on the importance to protect the ecologically sensitive.
Photographer Sali Palode, an active member of the action committee against the waste plant, said that in the recent budget, the state government has announced two major tourism projects in the Peringamala Panchayat.
"A farm tourism project has been announced in the budget. The government plan to set up the waste-t0-energy plant is also at the same farmland," said Mr Sali Palode.
He said that the action council is planning to launch a survey on the dragonflies in the Peringamala area. "We are totally against violence and other methods of protests. We want the world to know how ecologically rich is this place. We are planning for more surveys on the wildlife including fish, bats and other wildlife," said Mr Sali Palode.
The entire residents of Peringamala had taken out a march to protest the setting up of the plant. However, despite mounting protest the state government refuses to take a call on the proposed plant.