The opposition against plans to construct an artificial canal for arterial inland waterways from Mahe to Valapattanam is gaining strength in Kannur.
Those raising protests demand that instead of the project that will displace people and create environmental destruction, the government should implement the Coastal Waterways project through the sea that was proposed by the E.K. Nayanar government.
Several hundred people and members of various groups from panchayats and the Panoor municipality staged a protest march to the Sub Collector’s office at Thalassery recently. In another public meeting, people who gathered at Kadachira Higher Secondary School univocally raised their apprehension and opposed the plan to construct an artificial canal.
