The land under the control of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) at Ponmudi, near Munnar, which has been given on lease for a hydel tourism project of the Rajakkad Service Cooperative Bank has landed in a controversy after the Revenue department held a land verification survey there claiming it was revenue land.
The KSEB gave 21 acres in the Ponmudi dam area to the bank on lease for 15 years to run its hydel tourism project after V.A. Kunjumon, bank president and son-in-law of former Electricity Minister M.M. Mani, made a request.
An application was given to the Kerala Hydel Tourism Centre (KHTC). A meeting of the KHTC on February 28, 2019 ratified the decision to hand over the land. KSEB Chairman B. Ashok had contended that the KHTC was part of the KSEB and the land was handed over without government permission.
