athirapally project has been reportedly cleared by moef. this project which exemplifies all the things that is going wrong in india in name of development, is a hugely destructive project that is bound to rape the pristine western ghats forests of kerala.

and in spite of severe people protests, high court intervention, repeated petitions from chalakudy river council, the local ngo who is fighting this project the moef has deemed it good to give clearance when the project ought got to have rejected lock, stock and bareel.

development, is surely a four letter word. a bad four letter word at that. how else can we characterise this bad word when the policy makers and others violate basic human and environmental laws such as cases in athirapally.