Pampa clean-up project moving at snail’s pace
The Sabarimala pilgrim season will begin in two months. However, apart from a few bathing ghats and 100 new toilets, the project to abate pollution at Pampa River has not progressed much. Minister
View ArticleChange at Centre could impact Aranmula airport
The BJP had in fact gained a record vote share in Pathanmthitta constituency with BJP candidate M T Ramesh getting 1.3 lakh vote after pitching against Aranmula airport in his election campaign. “The...
View ArticleEco group opposes move to interlink rivers
The move will leave Pampa, Achencovil dry, says PPS leader Various environmental groups and experts have strongly opposed the reported move to implement the controversial river-linking scheme,...
View ArticleKerala to oppose river interlinking project
The government will not allow any move to interlink Pampa, Achenkovil rivers in the state with Tamil Nadu's Vaipar river, chief minister Oommen Chandy said in the assembly on Thursday. “The state assembly
View ArticleState in a tizzy over river-linking project
Concern over impact of diversion of water from State rivers to Vaipar basin. The very idea of interlinking the rivers of India has its roots in the thoughts of M. Viswesvarayya, the stalwart engineer of
View ArticleKSSP call to do abandon river linking proposal
Call to abandon river linking proposal The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad has called upon the Centre to abandon the controversial Pampa-Achenkovil-Vaipar Link Project which would spell doom to Central
View Article37 pollution hotspots along Pampa to be monitored
As many as 37 hotspots of pollution along the Pampa will be monitored for water quality, under the Save Pampa, Save Vembanad campaign taken up by the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management
View ArticlePampa Protection Force sought
It is high time the government took necessary initiative to address the pollution problems facing the Pampasays, N.K. Sukumaran Nair, general secretary, Pampa Parirakshana Samiti. The government is
View ArticleClarify charges, KGS company told
MoEF panel seeks answers to points raised by action council The KGS Aranmula International Airport Company will have to answer certain pertinent questions raised by the Aranmula Heritage Village Action
View ArticleGovt. imposes total ban on sand-mining from 6 rivers
Restricted mining from 5 rivers for 3 years The government has imposed a total ban on sand-mining from six rivers and restricted mining from five rivers for the next three years. The decision is based
View ArticleKerala pollution control board picks holes in waste management at Sabarimala...
The Kerala Pollution Control Board (PCB) has taken exception to the inadequate and slow pace of preparations for waste management and pollution control at Sabarimala and Pampa during the coming...
View ArticleOrder on river pollution welcomed
The Pampa Parirakshana Samiti (PPS) that has been campaigning for the cause of the Pampa for the past three decades has welcomed the Kerala High Court direction to invoke the relevant provisions in the
View ArticleFilth flows via stream, pollutes Pampa
The formal commissioning of the modern sewage treatment plant (STP) on the eve of the annual pilgrim season has done pretty little to check the flow of filth into the Pampa through the Njunangar stream
View ArticlePCB for deploying police at Pampa bathing ghats
The State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has suggested the deployment of policemen instead of volunteers at the Pampa bathing ghats in the foothills of Sabarimala to stop pilgrims from throwing used...
View ArticleE-coli count crosses 3.5 lakh at Njunangar
The pollution status of river Pampa in the foothills of Sabarimala has recorded an alarming e-coli count in the last lap of the just-concluded Mandalam pilgrim season. The Kerala State Pollution Control
View ArticlePampa River Action Plan gets a new lease of life
Nod for releasing Central grant-in-aid of Rs.5 crore The Pampa River Action Plan for pollution abatement and conservation of the river basin has received a fresh lease of life, with the Ministry of
View ArticleCentral team undertakes recce of river Pampa
A four-member Central team led by J. Chandrashekhara Iyer, Central Water Commission Chief Engineer, visited Pampa and Cheriyanavattom in the foothills of Sabarimala on Monday as part of the Union Water
View ArticlePampa-Vaipar project may set off another water war
Experts say Central Kerala may see an eco-disaster, socio-economic crisis The Tamil Nadu government pushing for implementing the proposed Pampa-Achencoil-Vaipar River Link Project (PAVRLP) on a priority
View ArticleDegradation of floodplain wetland poses threat to Pampa
The 2.5-km-long natural stream Varalchal is heavily silted Degradation of the floodplain wetland in the Pampa river basin Varalchal at Koipram, near Aranmula, is posing serious ecological problems to
View ArticlePampa river system in danger
The river basin had witnessed an unprecedented water scarcity last summer The Environment Resource Centre (ERC) of the Pampa Parirakshana Samiti (PSS) has observed that indiscriminate sand-mining, coupled
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