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.

Further illustrating the doggedness of its stand towards the US, a WikiLeaks cable shows that the Left in Kerala was sceptical of even philanthropic gestures from the country.

Garbage collection by Kudumbasree Clean Well Units will be withdrawn from these institutions as part of asking commercial establishments and apartments to set up independent waste-processing units.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.

Thiruvananthapuram The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC), the state’s arm for industrial and investment promotion, has signed a shareholders/promoters agreement with GAIL Gas for setting up a R1,000 crore gas-based infrastructure project. The agreement was signed in the presence of Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy by KSID C MD Alkesh Sharma and M Ravindran, CEO, Gail Gas, on Friday. KSIDC will have 24% equity in the company and GAIL Gas will have 26% in the company. The balance will be held by a strategic investor.

Coming out strongly against the Coca-Cola sponsored potable water programme former Forest Minister Benoy Viswom has said the model of Foreign Direct Investment put forward by the Coca-Cola company is not at all acceptable.
“A company which has destroyed the water of an entire land is now promising to sponsor drinking water,” he said at the protest march held at Panampilly Nagar against the Coca-Cola sponsored drinking water programme.