Kochi: Poet Sugathakumari and two others on Friday approached the Kerala High Court challenging the state government’s sanction for a greenfield airport in Aranmula. According to the petitioners, the proposed airport did not have sufficient environmental clearance. It was being constructed after filling paddy land.
Therefore, it was against the provisions of the Kerala Conservation of Paddy and Wetland Act and Rules. The clearance was granted under the provisions of the Kerala Industrial Single Window Clearance Board and Industrial Township Areas Development Act.
The petitioners said the Act did not empower the state government to notify a particular area as industrial area and accord clearance for the project there. It was applicable only to projects coming up in the areas which have already been declared as industrial areas.
10/03/12 New Indian Express/IBN Live
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