Sasthamcotta Lake were taken at a meeting called by District Collector
A. Shajahan with various district-level department heads and
environment activists here on Friday.The decisions will be presented
at an ad hoc joint meeting by Minister for Water Resources N.K.
Premachandran and Forest Minister Benoy Viswom in Thiruvananthapuram
on July 10.One of the decisions was that the government should take
steps to constitute a statutory authority for the lake's protection.
Fifty families living on the banks without title deeds should be
rehabilitated elsewhere. The meeting wanted all gutters from
Bharanikavu and the Sasthamcotta market leading to the lake to be
diverted immediately. Steps should be taken to clear the harmful water
hyacinth growth on the lake by July 31. Environmental activists
Odanavattom Vijayaprakas and Ganga Prasad attended.
The Hindu, July 4
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