Government has given top priority for execution of the much sought-after Sabarimala Master Plan with the sole aim of ensuring better basic facility at the pilgrim centre where as many as the State’

Mata Amritanandamayi Math is to extend its popular cleaning project, ‘Amala Bharathom’, to Sabarimala as a part of the much sought-after massive sanitation programme of the State government at the

Water level in River Pampa, on the foothills of Sabarimala, witnessed a sudden spurt around 8.15 p.m. following heavy downpour in the forests, on Wednesday.

‘Residents of Pampa basin face health risk due to river pollution'

Pilot project prior to a programme for four rivers
Rs.90-crore conservation project for Vembanad Lake
Rs.15 crore set apart to replaceold water pumps
PATHANAMTHITTA: Water Resources Minister P.J. Joseph said here on Monday that the State government would implement a comprehensive model project to protect the Pampa and its banks in a time-bound manner.

Mr.

PATHANAMTHITTA: The Legislative Committee on Environment chaired by Rajaji Mathew Thomas has expressed concern over pollution of the Pampa at the foothills of Sabarimala during the Mandalam- Makaravilakku pilgrim season.

Holding a sitting at Pampa on Monday, Mr.

Two endemic fish varieties - catfish and eel - are feared to have disappeared from the Pampa.

No individuals of these species have landed in the nets of fishermen for the last three years triggering suspicion of their population loss.

Water Resources Minister N.K.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pampa Action Plan (PAP), which had never really been put to action in the past eight years, will now be co-opted into a larger comprehensive Pampa River Basin Watershed Development Programme which will include within its scope not just the revival of Pampa but also the social and economic development of regions along the river basin.

G.K. Nair

Aggressive human intervention, especially the indiscriminate sand mining in southern Kerala's major rivers, such as Pampa, Manimala and Achankoil, has driven almost all the tributaries of these rivers, which once used to facilitate agriculture activities and water transport in the region, to the verge of death.

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