A joint action council meeting held at Mankulam on Saturday against the alleged anti-people actions by the Forest department in Mankulam village located on the forest fringes in Idukki decided to conduct an indefinite protest against the department.
According to its leaders, the joint action council will conduct an indefinite strike in front of the Mankulam Divisional Forest Office (DFO) from March 4..
The protesters demanded that the government should transfer the DFO from Mankulam immediately. They wanted the Forest department to stop registering cases against local people, complete the forest and revenue land boundary survey immediately, resume the notification of Hill Highway, and re-open the road through Kurathikudy to Mankulam.
