Kerala finance minister T.M. Thomas Isaac is getting ready to present the first "green budget" in the country with increased focus on environmental issues. Mr Isaac and his team of top officials are now closeted in the inspection bungalow in the picturesque Vizhinjam beach to give final shape to the ecofriendly budget.
10/02/2010
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The land acquisition process for the Vizhnjam International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) was officially launched on Tuesday. The Vizhinjam International Seaport Ltd (VISL) has submitted the first official application for requisition of land for the port project to Revenue authorities.
20/01/2010
TIKI RAJWI, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Complaints lodged by the public were not the sole reason why the State Government was forced to form a three-member committee to look into the disputes regarding land acquisition for the multi-crore Vizhinjam terminal.
The Vizhinjam research centre of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) in Kochi has made a major breakthrough with the development of a technology for hatchery production of the
03/12/1999
The Vizhinjam research centre of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has developed a new farming procedure for multi-crop system to cultivate pearls, mussels, finfishes,
13/03/1998
Ecological imbalance in the coastal areas of Kerala has caused food poisoning in people who consumed marine mussel
The Kerala government has decided to appeal against two national green tribunal orders that said that the government should take note and adhere to the recommendations of the Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report while approving private and commercial development in eco-sensitive zones. Read more in this September 2013 edition of the Monthly India State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor fisherfolk for their settlements, is the administration surreptitiously letting in Indian companies and multinationa