Your Opinion !

I am a Mechanical Engineering student doing my course in Trivandrum Engineering College.  Right from my childhood days Iam a nature enthusiast/ lover / worshiper . It is totally disheartening to note the robust efforts of the Govt of Kerala to assassin the Chalakudy river  and put its people in unrecoverable misfortune. We have already lost a lion's share of our forests and wildlife to the greedy requisites of the vicious nexus of  politicians, companies ,bureaucrats and contractors. Let us not allow  them to play their game this time, at the cost of nature and the livelihoods of innocent tribes. For the last few years, i had many visits  to athirapallly- vazhachal areas and i am always fascinated by its brilliant peculiarity. Its floral and faunal diversity is perceivable even to a mere layperson. Many times i had seen the the endemic and endangered Malabar Pied Hornbill in the athirapally areas. Some local people also report of its nesting in this area.
The fact of generating 160 Mw (which is an absolutely exaggerated figure) at the cost of 700 crores (which is an absolutely minimized figure) at the cost of the life of myriad lifeforms heralds sheer irretrievable damage and is totally condemnable and rejectable to the  biggest extent possible.
Electricity generation is inevitable and of paramount importance. While electricity is important for the development and luxury of one species- man, forests are required for the existence of innumerable species (this also includes man). It cannot be denied on any grounds. So benefits of nature belongs to all species and lifeforms alike and no particular species can establish monopoly over it.So let us not dissect the goose that lays golden eggs and dig our own graves.
All people who value the ethics of this planet should join hands to save the  athirapally forests.

Varun T., Trivandrum