Kallai protection forum plans to move court against STP project
The Hindu
‘Plant will be a clear violation of CRZ norms’
The Kallai River Protection Committee is planning to move court against the Kozhikode Corporation’s attempt to construct a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) on the river. It is also planning to mobilise people against the project if the corporation is determined to implement it despite the strong protest from locals against clearing the mangrove forest along Pallikandy-Azheekal road for the purpose.
The local people were alerted about the setting up of the project a fortnight ago when corporation officials turned up at the site to survey it and cut down the mangrove trees. However, they intervened to prevent the cutting of trees.
“Ironically, the STP project is proposed to be implemented at Kothi which is 1.5 kilometres away from here. How can the corporation change the site of the STP when the DPR has been published and the funds have been allotted?,” Faisal Pallikkandy, secretary of the committee, asked.
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