Huge Loss With LDF State-wide Shutdown

19 November 2013
Thiruvananthapuram

The State wide shut down from LDF on Monday to protest an order on implementation of the Kasturirangan panel report on conserving Western Ghats environment it is estimated that the protest have made a loss of about Rs 900 Crores.

Across the state, shops and markets were closed and, barring private vehicles, no public transport vehicles were operating, leaving many stranded at railway stations and bus stands.

“The CPI-M should tell the people of the state why was today’s shutdown called. The state has lost Rs.900 crore and, in this figure, the agriculture sector’s loss has not been accounted for. In every shutdown, the worst affected are the daily wage workers,” Mr Chandy told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram.

The five conditions in the order, applicable in the state’s 123 villages, are: no mining, no setting up of thermal plants, restriction on construction of buildings to less than 20,000 square metres, no township project to exceed 50 hectares, and no setting up of industries classified in the red category.

Hours after the Ministry of Environment and Forest came out with the order on Thursday, there was a scare, especially in the hilly districts of the state, that the order will spell a death-knell for their livelihood.

Source-greaterkashmir.com

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