Replying to a submission by C.K.P. Padmanabhan (CPI-M), Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran said the panchayat-level committees to monitor unauthorised reclamation of wetlands would come up soon.
The State-level committee had been constituted and the district-level committees were about to be notified, he added.
Earlier, Revenue Minister K.P. Rajendran told P.C. George (KC-M) that the government had registered 1,100 cases in connection with unauthorised reclamation of paddy and wetlands and was in the process of preparing the databank on wetlands in the State.
He also assured the member that the government would prevent the allegedly unauthorised reclamation of wetlands at Akkulam here. In Thrissur, the government had reversed the reclamation and the action was ratified by Kerala High Court, he said.
Source:Hindu,29-7-2010
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