Plea to to protect Sasthamcotta Lake

KOLLAM: The Parsthiti Samrakshana Ekopana Samithi has called for the immediate constitution of a statutory authority for the protection of the Sasthamcotta freshwater lake. In a statement, Samithi chairman R. Gangaprasad and general convener Odanavattam Vijayaprakash said Minister for Water Resources N.K. Premachandran had been promising to set up such an authority for the past three years through the introduction of a Bill in the Assembly. Even though a lake protection society had been constituted, its performance was not effective, the Samithi leaders alleged.

Source: The Hindu, Dated: 05.03.2010