The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Inclusion will affect development of pilgrim centre six-member village-level committee appointed by the State government has excluded the sacred grove (Poonkavanam) of Sabarimala and Pampa from the purview of the Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) in view of its importance as a pilgrim centre. The committee was appointed by the government …
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 yet to form an Environment Management Cell for Sabarimala as proposed by the Legislative Committee on Environment in 1998. Mr. Nair urged …
World Rivers Day is being observed today Even as World Rivers Day is observed on Sunday, the Central Travancore region, comprising Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, and parts of Alappuzha, is fast becoming a graveyard of rivers and natural streams owing to indiscriminate sand-mining, encroachments, and pollution. The Pampa, regarded as the lifeline …
Kochi: In the abode of Lord Ayappa, devotees seeking a darshan must take a dip in the Pampa. It’s dictated by tradition and it doesn’t matter that the river, also known as Dakshin Ganga, has become unfit for bathing. Studies conducted by the Kerala State Pollution Control Board have found …
The district administration will prepare a comprehensive action plan for the conservation of the Pampa, Manimala, Achenkovil, and Kallada rivers which course through the district, District Collector P. Venugopal has said. The support of local self-government institutions, government agencies, and non-government organisations (NGOs) would be enlisted, he said while addressing …
‘Residents of Pampa basin face health risk due to river pollution' People residing in the Pampa river basin up to Kuttanad are exposed to grave health risks during the ‘Mandalam-Makaravilakku' pilgrimage season since the river gets increasingly polluted then, N.K. Sukumaran Nair, Pampa Parirakshana Samiti general secretary, has said. The …
Pilot project prior to a programme for four rivers Rs.90-crore conservation project for Vembanad Lake Rs.15 crore set apart to replaceold water pumps PATHANAMTHITTA: Water Resources Minister P.J. Joseph said here on Monday that the State government would implement a comprehensive model project to protect the Pampa and its banks …
Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran said here on Thursday that the government had taken steps to protect the Pampa river. The Minister was inaugurating the work on the viewers' gallery at the finishing point of the Uthrittathi boat race near Sathram Kadavu on the banks of the Pampa at Aranmula. …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pampa Action Plan (PAP), which had never really been put to action in the past eight years, will now be co-opted into a larger comprehensive Pampa River Basin Watershed Development Programme which will include within its scope not just the revival of Pampa but also the social and …
Pampa Action Plan: The picture shows how the human intervention has narrowed down the river. G K Nair Implementation of the Pampa Action Plan (PAP) and similar projects for other three rivers, Achancovil, Manimala and Meenachil, is inevitable for making conservation of the Vembanad Wetland System (VWS), which has recently …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pampa River Basin Authority Bill, 2009, which will lead to the constitution of an Authority for the management of activities related to the conservation of the Pampa river basin, was piloted in the Assembly on Monday. ``The Bill is just a beginning. A comprehensive River Protection Act will …
The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to form a river basin authority for smooth implementation of the Pampa Action Plan. It recommended issue of an Ordinance to the Governor for constituting the authority on an urgent basis. The Pampa River Basin Authority, as per the proposed Ordinance, will have powers to …
