The Neyyattinkara municipality plans to launch a novel project to promote natural farming for the cultivation of organic vegetables.

The State Cabinet approved on Wednesday a draft policy on land acquisition and released it for public discussion.
The policy provides for shares to evictees in selected projects, construction of marketing complex for rehabilitation of evicted shopkeepers, and provision of land for rehabilitation. The policy envisages issue of redeemable infrastructure bonds to evictees against the value of land at the choice of the evictees in lieu of compensation.

Transport Minister V.S. Sivakumar has said that 1,000 new buses will be purchased to resolve the transportation problems of the State.
Out of this, 500 buses will be deployed shortly, Mr. Sivakumar said. He was talking after flagging off the first of the three KSRTC buses allotted in the Thuthiyoor-Kakkanad route on Tuesday.

To furnish detailed project report sought by the Supreme Court this month itself
A high-level conference, convened by Minister for Water Resources P.J. Joseph here on Tuesday, decided to constitute a special purpose vehicle for construction of a new dam on the Mullaperiyar.

The Sabarimala high-power committee has decided to submit a proposal to the government for implementing a zero-waste project at Sabarimala.
The project aims at cleaning Sabarimala, Pampa, and the traditional forest path to Sabarimala and maintaining them as a zero-waste zone.

The Central government had sanctioned Rs.294.72 lakh for the solid waste treatment project in the capital city, a statement issued by Shashi Tharoor, MP, said here on Monday.

Garbage collection by Kudumbasree Clean Well Units will be withdrawn from these institutions as part of asking commercial establishments and apartments to set up independent waste-processing units. The move sparked protests from apartment owners who pointed out that apartments do not fall under the category of ‘commercial establishments' and garbage collection by Kudumbasree units should continue.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will launch the development work on the waterfall tourism project at Aruvikuzhi in Pallickathode, near here, on Saturday.

President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has called for developing Ashtamudi Lake as an international tourism destination incorporating all principles of sustainable and responsible tourism.

Area near Kodagu forests to be developed as tourism village
Kanjirakolli, a village on the foothills of the Western Ghats bordering the Kodagu range of evergreen forests in Karnataka, is set to be developed as a major highland tourism destination.