Cabinet to decide on status of Mathikettan

  • 05/05/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

The Kerala Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, has said that all encroachers in the Mathikettan Shola will be evicted soon and a decision on the status of the shola will be decided in the next Cabinet meeting on May 8. The Chief Minister denied the allegation that there was a large scale encroachment of forest land after the UDF Government came to power in May last year.