Kerala authorities kinds four-member staff to check affect of Adani’s port at Vizhinjam
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By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state authorities has constituted a four-member staff to check the coastal space across the Adani Group’s Vizhinjam International Transhipment Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport.
The staff consists of former extra director of Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), Pune, MD Kudale, Riji John, Vice Chancellor, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Tejal Kanitkar, Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences & Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and PK Chandramohan, Former Chief Engineer, Kandla Port Trust.
The knowledgeable committee will look at whether or not there was any such coastal erosion consequent to the work carried out for developing the port at Vizhinjam and establish particular measures to deal with the coastal erosion, if any, noticed within the zone of affect of development. The committee shall hear the views of the representatives of the native inhabitants earlier than finalising the report, mentioned the order issued by the fisheries division.
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The structure of an knowledgeable committee relies on the criticism by the protestors group led by Latin Archdiocese of Thiruvananthapuram which accused that the port development accelerated the coastal erosion within the area. The protestors are nevertheless not happy with the federal government choice.
“We have demanded that an expert committee shall be formed by including our representative in the committee. As far as I know there is not a single member with the knowledge of oceanography in the committee,” mentioned Vicar General of the Thiruvananthapuram Latin Archdiocese, and the final convenor of the protest, Eugine H Pereira.
The protestors suffered one other setback after the High Court requested them to dismantle the protest shed erected close to the port gate.
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The course got here after the Adani Group petitioned that the port work couldn’t be carried out because of the protest organised from the shed.
The protestors nevertheless mentioned that they’d no rapid plans to take away the shed. They didn’t heed to the orders of sub divisional Justice of the Peace of Thiruvananthapuram to demolish the protest shed by September 30.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state authorities has constituted a four-member staff to check the coastal space across the Adani Group’s Vizhinjam International Transhipment Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport.
The staff consists of former extra director of Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), Pune, MD Kudale, Riji John, Vice Chancellor, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Tejal Kanitkar, Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences & Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and PK Chandramohan, Former Chief Engineer, Kandla Port Trust.
The knowledgeable committee will look at whether or not there was any such coastal erosion consequent to the work carried out for developing the port at Vizhinjam and establish particular measures to deal with the coastal erosion, if any, noticed within the zone of affect of development. The committee shall hear the views of the representatives of the native inhabitants earlier than finalising the report, mentioned the order issued by the fisheries division.
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The structure of an knowledgeable committee relies on the criticism by the protestors group led by Latin Archdiocese of Thiruvananthapuram which accused that the port development accelerated the coastal erosion within the area. The protestors are nevertheless not happy with the federal government choice.
“We have demanded that an expert committee shall be formed by including our representative in the committee. As far as I know there is not a single member with the knowledge of oceanography in the committee,” mentioned Vicar General of the Thiruvananthapuram Latin Archdiocese, and the final convenor of the protest, Eugine H Pereira.
The protestors suffered one other setback after the High Court requested them to dismantle the protest shed erected close to the port gate.
ALSO READ | Costa Rica faucets Adani for Dry Canal undertaking
The course got here after the Adani Group petitioned that the port work couldn’t be carried out because of the protest organised from the shed.
The protestors nevertheless mentioned that they’d no rapid plans to take away the shed. They didn’t heed to the orders of sub divisional Justice of the Peace of Thiruvananthapuram to demolish the protest shed by September 30.
