The State Government's Harithatheeram programme for developing a green belt along the 590-km Kerala coastline will be inaugurated on Thursday.The Rs. 25.56-crore programme, part of the rehabilitation projects for tsunami victims, will be implemented by the Forest and the Fisheries departments. the programme would be implemented in collaboration with local self-government institutions. There would be no middlemen, and works would be carried out by Theera Samrakshana, Vriksha Samrakshana (coast and tree protection) committees to be formed in every ward. The local body members would head the committees in their respective wards and forest officials would be the secretaries. Representatives of socio-political organisations, including those of fish workers' groups, would be the members of the committees, apart from fisheries and revenue officials.
(The Hindu, 15th August 2007)
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