Protest is brewing among environmental organisations and the public against the proposed project to construct a dam across the Kadamanthodu river, a tributary of the Kabani, at Pulpally in Wayanad district.
N. Badusha, president, Wayanad Prakruthi Samrakshana Samiti, urged the government to repeal the proposed project as it would adversely affect thousands of families in the area and destroy hundreds of acres of fertile land.
The proposed project was a challenge to the farming community as construction work for the two huge irrigation projects — Karapuzha and Banasaura Sagar — was launched in 1970, and even the first phase of the projects were yet to be commissioned, Mr. Badusha said.
