With no sustained protests, little political intervention and virtually no official updates, the promised rehabilitation township for the affected tribal families remains shrouded in silence.
The work features an artistic homage to “Kattana Maniyan”, who inhabited the surrounding forests of Irulam, Pulpally and Sultan Bathery until his passing in September 2019.
A senior KSDMA official said the project goes beyond installing monitoring equipment and is designed to strengthen disaster preparedness at the grassroots level.