The ongoing public agitation against the proposal to construct a private international airport, converting the water-rich Aranmula Puncha (paddy fields) and wetlands in Aranmula should be viewed as a crucial people’s movement to protect the remaining paddy fields and wetlands in the State, said former Agriculture Minister, Mullakkara Ratnakaran, MLA.
Mr Ratnakaran was inaugurating the day-long fast of 101 Bharatiya Kheth Mazdoor Union (BKMU) attached to Communist Party of India, protesting against conversion of paddy fields and wetland in the name of a private airport project at Aranmula on Thursday.
He alleged that the anti-nature attitude and approach towards development in the modern times have already started its far-reaching negative impacts on the environment and nature.
The Left Democratic Front Government had enacted the Kerala Conservation of Paddyland and Wetland Act in 2008 at a time the land under paddy cultivation in the State had gone even below 2 lakh ha with the sole intention of checking conversion and misuse of paddy fields and wetlands, he said.
16/02/12 The Hindu
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