Brahmapuram fuel plant opened

KOCHI: The Kochi Corporation has succeeded in converting waste into wealth through the waste management programmes introduced in the city, said S. Sarma, Minister for Fisheries.

He was speaking after inaugurating the Refuse Derived Fuel plant at a function held at the Kochi Corporation council hall on Thursday. There was a time when the city was full of garbage heaps. But the civic authorities succeeded in overcoming the crisis through the establishment of the waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram, he said.

The Minister also inaugurated the distribution of the bio-manure produced at the plant. Members of Kudumbasree units and agriculturalists received the bio-manure packets from the Minister.

Source: The Hindu 7-8-2010

Work on waste treatment plant at Sabarimala to begin soon

Minister for Water Resources N.K. Premachandran on Wednesday said work on a waste treatment plant at Sabarimala would begin this festival season.

He told the Assembly during question hour that the Rs.29-crore project would come up before the next meeting of the Cabinet for administrative sanction.


Minister for Devaswom Kadannapally Ramachandran informed the House that the government was awaiting the report of a survey for the construction of a ropeway at Sabarimala.

Answering a question raised by Aisha Potti, he said the ropeway would begin at the Pamba Hilltop and end before the police mess at the Sannidhanam. He said Rs.3 crore had been sanctioned for the renovation of temples under the Malabar Devaswom.

Source: Hindu,29-7-2010