Interestingly, a small section with self interests in Kerala have been trying to campaign on an extremely obvious development disaster called `Vizhinjam International Transit Harbour’, which would only benefit Adani, the real estate mafia, the mining mafia and the corrupt bureaucrats and politicians. The Kerala Government with cooperation from Modi Government has decided to provide two hills from the Western Ghats (one from Kerala and another from Tamil Nadu) and fill the sea for about 4 kilometers for the construction of this project. The project will affect the and homes and livelihood of fisher folk living in around 25 villages on the north of the proposed harbour. There will be other environmental implications on the southern side of the proposed project. The campaign from racketeers benefiting from this project is that this project will convert Kerala into a Dubai or Singapore – they have still not decided which one! The project is going to dump two hills from the Western Ghats into a sea which is an extremely rich bio diversity region. Below the sea, where the rocks are to be dumped, there is a Silent Valley with rich bio diversity under the sea with many rare species. The bio diversity intense regions in the sea are called `Wadge Banks’ or sometimes `Wedge Banks’. There are only 20 such banks in the ocean all over the world and there is only one such precious region in India and it is situated from 40 kilometers from the proposed harbour to the region of Kanyakumari waters. The environmental activists in Kerala are well aware about the environmental implications of the forests, due to the follow up of the Silent Valley struggle and the Western Ghats March. But there is still a great deal of ignorance on the bio diversity and environmental implications of the sea. What is going to be destroyed is a Silent Valley under the sea. To those who represent Adanis, real estate mafias, mining mafias, the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats in Kerala, my question is: If you convert Kerala into a Dubai or Singapore (a claim which you can never fulfill, since Kerala is a totally dependent economy on places like Dubai, Singapore and other countries) can you recreate a wedge bank in either Dubai or Singapore? K.P. Sasi
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