The Confederation of Residents Associations (CONFRA) through three separate memoranda to the Chief Minister has requested for the protection of wetlands and paddy fields, effective management of plastic waste and the development of roads including the Karamana-Kaliyikkavila Road and realisation of the Monorail project in the capital city.
The CONFRA has pointed out that while the land under paddy cultivation has been continuously decreasing in Kerala, the fall in area going even to the extent of 25,000 hectares, both Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have increased their area of cultivation.
Not just the cultivable land, Kerala is losing sacred groves, ponds and wetlands, toppling our ecological balance. The CONFRA has asked the Chief Minister to intervene in the matter and ensure the conservation of water resources and biodiversity.
Interestingly, the CONFRA has also asked the Chief Minister to take a free hand to build flyovers, underground passages, foot overbridges after a scientific survey so as to reduce traffic bottlenecks.
Alleging that the road development in Kerala is being torpedoed by groups with specific interests as witnessed through agitations against levying of toll, CONFRA has asked the Chief Minister to go ahead with road development projects as well as the Monorail project. Regarding management of different types of waste, the CONFRA has requested that people be given the choice of the kind of treatment method for organic waste.
They have also asked the Chief Minister to set up plastic shredders in every district as in Thiruvananthapuram and to export the shredded plastic to other states, utilisation of plastic for road development and immediate waste treatment methods for solid wastes.
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