The protest will begin at 4 PM on September 28 and end at 9 AM on September 29 near Thiruvambady Bus Stand, demanding exclusion of homes and farmlands from ESA restrictions.
The resolution questioned declaring an entire village as ESA merely because one-fifth of its area falls under forest cover, calling the approach unscientific.
The APK annual general body meeting urged the government to introduce a compensation scheme on the model of motor insurance to compensate destruction of crops by wild animals.
The 8,590.69 sq. km ESA that the government has now recommended as the reserve forest area in 98 villages is a repetition of the errors in the Oommen V Oommen Committee report
A section in Congress has also criticised leaving the decision on an issue that carries immense political implications to a sub-committee largely comprising first-time ministers.
