THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Ten different projects, which include paddy and vegetable farming initiatives, revival of dying water bodies and waste management schemes, will be implemented in Thiruvananthapuram district as part of the Haritha Keralam project which gets underway on Thursday.
The projects are distributed across the district and include the launch of paddy cultivation in a 14-hectare spread in Kollayil panchayat to garbage disposal programmes in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will perform the state-wide inauguration of the Haritha Keralam initiative by launching the paddy cultivation in Kollayil at 9 am on Thursday. Farmers will hand over letters of consent for farming another nine acres to the Chief Minister on the occasion. Minister Kadakampally Surendran, MLAs C K Hareendran, M Vincent, K Ansalan and I B Satheesh, playback legend K J Yesudas, actor Manju Warrier and district panchayat president V K Madhu will be attending the event.
In Nedumangad municipality, Agriculture Minister V S Sunil Kumar will launch paddy cultivation in 75 cents of fallow land. The recharging of 600 wells also is planned in Nedumangad. Organic vegetable farming initiatives will be launched in all 31 wards of Attingal municipality.
Fifty cents of land have been earmarked in each of the wards. B Sathyan MLA will also inaugurate paddy cultivation in 22 acres in Attingal. Rice seedlings will be sown in a three-acre Edakkuzhi ‘Ela’ in Malayinkeezhu grama panchayat. I B Satheesh MLA will launch the project. Deputy Speaker V Sasi will inaugurate organic vegetable farming in 50 cents at the block panchayat office at Pothencode.
The Haritha Keralam programmes in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation will begin with a cleaning drive at the Chirakkulam colony. Minister A K Balan will inaugurate the drive at 8 am. Mayor V K Prasanth and other people’s representatives will be present on the occasion. Administrative Reforms Commission Chairman V S Achuthanandan will inaugurate the handing over of plastic waste collected by the Corporation to Clean Kerala Company, the waste management initiative formed under the LSG Department.
Other projects include the planting of mangroves in Anchuthengu, the cleaning of the Aamachal canal in Kattakkada and a ‘Kerala Gramam’ project in Vellarada. In Vellanadu panchayat, volunteers will clean the Kalluvakkonam pond. The entire cost of the work - Rs 1 lakh - is being borne by the local people.
Mercykutty Amma to launch project
Kollam: The district-level inauguration of the Haritha Keralam Mission will take place at Thazhavayal at Kulasekharapuram grama panchayat here on Thursday. The programme will be launched by Minister J Mercykutty Amma at 4 pm. A committee comprising District Collector T Mithra and Kollam district panchayat president K Jagadamma along with heads of various departments chalked out the working plan for implementing the programmes under the project on Wednesday.