PROTECT
SASTHAMCOTTA LAKE
The activists of the paristhithi samrakshna ekopana samithi submitted memoranda to the chief Minister, the water resources Minister, The forest Minister, the Revenue Minister and the leader of the opposition on Friday 19th June 2009 demanding the constitution of a statutory body during the coming Assembly session itself for the protection of sasthamcotta fresh water lake. General convener of the samithi said with out a statutory body for its protection, the lake would be in peril, no particular department was in full ownership of the lake.
As per information gathered from the government, the water part of the lake is owned by the Kerala Water Authority, its banks by the Revenue Department and trees planted along the banks are owned by the Forest Department. But when it comes to the overall protection of the lake there is no collective responsibility or individual interest on the part any department. 15 percent of the lake had already been covered with water lilies and the plants had spread at a fast pace threatening to choke the lake. The breaching of the near by pattakadavu bund posed a threat of saline water seeping in to the lake.
Yet the authorities were not showing any interest in protecting the lake. This was in spite of the fact that the in spite of the fact that the lake was the drinking water source for over five-lakh people
The activists of the kerala Kavya kala Sahithy also conducted a survey and peoples rally in the banks of sathamcotta lake on 15 5h November 2008 and submitted a memoranda to the kerala government for the protection of the fresh water lake
Prof.John Kurakar
SASTHAMCOTTA LAKE
The activists of the paristhithi samrakshna ekopana samithi submitted memoranda to the chief Minister, the water resources Minister, The forest Minister, the Revenue Minister and the leader of the opposition on Friday 19th June 2009 demanding the constitution of a statutory body during the coming Assembly session itself for the protection of sasthamcotta fresh water lake. General convener of the samithi said with out a statutory body for its protection, the lake would be in peril, no particular department was in full ownership of the lake.
As per information gathered from the government, the water part of the lake is owned by the Kerala Water Authority, its banks by the Revenue Department and trees planted along the banks are owned by the Forest Department. But when it comes to the overall protection of the lake there is no collective responsibility or individual interest on the part any department. 15 percent of the lake had already been covered with water lilies and the plants had spread at a fast pace threatening to choke the lake. The breaching of the near by pattakadavu bund posed a threat of saline water seeping in to the lake.
Yet the authorities were not showing any interest in protecting the lake. This was in spite of the fact that the in spite of the fact that the lake was the drinking water source for over five-lakh people
The activists of the kerala Kavya kala Sahithy also conducted a survey and peoples rally in the banks of sathamcotta lake on 15 5h November 2008 and submitted a memoranda to the kerala government for the protection of the fresh water lake
Prof.John Kurakar
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