PATHANAMTHITTA,
The Hindu, November 3, 2014
The State government has urged the Centre to allot more forest land for Sabarimala development, said V.S. Sivakumar, Minister for Health and Devaswom.
Mr. Sivakumar was addressing a meeting held in connection with the Amala Bharathom cleaning drive at Pampa on Sunday.
He
said a high-level team led by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had
submitted a memorandum seeking National Pilgrim Centre status for
Sabarimala to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Union Minister for
Forests and Environment Prakash Javadekar in October.
Mr.
Sivakumar said the Chief Minister had convened a high-level meeting in
Thiruvananthapuram at 12 noon on Wednesday to chalk out a detailed
action plan for developing Sabarimala into a National Pilgrim Centre.
Members
of the Travancore Devaswom Baord and the High Power Committee for
Sabarimala Master Plan Implementation would also attend the meeting.
The
Minister said works undertaken by the government in connection with the
annual pilgrim season would be completed as scheduled.
He
said the government had sanctioned Rs. 5 lakh each to the District
Superintendents of Police in Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, and Idukki to
meet any emergency need during the pilgrim season.
He
said a meeting of Ministers and officials from the neighbouring States
of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh would also be chaired by
the Chief Minister in Thiruvananthapuram on November 5.
Presiding over the meeting, Raju Abraham, MLA, said plastic waste posed a major health hazard at Sabarimala.
Subhash
Vasu, TDB member; Anto Antony, MP; V.S.Jayakumar, Sabarimala Devaswom
executive officer; and S.Harikishore, District Collector, spoke.
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