Govt Bid to Favour Tourist Lobby Alleged http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/Govt-Bid-to-Favour-Tourist-Lobby-Alleged/2014/08/23/article2394091.ece
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Swathantra Matsya Thozhilali Federation (KSMTF) has alleged that the State Government is trying to relax the Coastal Regulation Zone notification for the benefit of the tourist resort lobby posing a challenge to the fishermen community. Federation president P P John and National Fishworkers Forum secretary T Peter said in a statement that their demand was to implement the notification without obstructing the construction of the fishermen's dwellings. They alleged that during today's meeting with the central team , the chief minister and higher officials of the state government were trying to secure the interests of the tourist lobby and real estate mafia and making reference of the fishermen community in a namesake manner. He said this attitude of the govt would result in severe repercussions. They protested the attitude of the Central team in not meeting the fishermen community leaders as part of their sitting. They said in order to protect the sea coast and inland water bodies from the real estate mafia and tourist lobby the fish workers will launch an agitation. A 'sea voyage' on traditional fishing boats will be taken out which will start on November 21 from Mangalapuram and reach T'Puram on Nov 30. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
