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Facing Threat |
The
structural safety ad natural beauty of the hillock has
been posing a serious threat for the last few years due
to the devastating activities of a mining company
functioning in the near vicinity of the temple and the
pound. The activity of the company is exposing china
clay deposits remained underneath the hill after
plundering the bowels of the rock with sophisticated
machineries and even crushing down hill to the sea level
portion by portion with high power explosives and
exporting the mineral substance on commercial basis.
The tremors experienced to the premising areas during
the process of firing explosives may entail in causing
damages to the temple structures and in toppling down
the water sources available where in the middle of rocky
layers from which the perennial supply of pure water is
coming to the surface of Vadukunda lake. The present
mining activities are carries out only 70 to 100 meters
away from the temple and pound in the southwest side of
the hill. The mining company has by hook or crook
managed to obtain the license of mining china clay from
the geological departments of Kerala even covering the
very courtyard of the temple. The director of mining
and geology of the Govt of Kerala when giving the mining
license in 1981 did not even care to examine the
validity of documents of the properly belonging to the
company and their possession right. The mining company,
which was once private enterprising, is now a holding
company under public sector But the present management
without feeling any sense of responsibility to the
people doing serious harm to the environment by creating
water pollution, air pollution, ecological imbalance to
the village and destruction of agricultural lands to a
vast extend by their devastating mining process. The
people of the village and the temple worshippers, in
particular, are tin the struggle path against the
mischief of the company functioning in the name and
style of "Kerala Clays and Ceramics Production Ltd (KCCP)
both thy direct actions and litigations. The land on
which the activity the mining activity is presently
conducted was obtained by the company on lease by the
then Trustee of "Madai Kavil Devasam" who is also the
Senior Raja of Chirakkal in 1964 for dumping the Soil
unearthed while mining in a separate near by land. This
leased land is an area where mining process is
prohibited as per the conditions of lease document. But
the plan attached and got registered along with the
document has been amended adopting clandestine methods
by the Company and obtained mining license in the
manipulated area covered by this fabricated plan through
corrupt practices. The present mining is thus carried
out in violation of all norms and principles. However
the effort of the company with the support of Supremes
in Govt. and political field for extensive mining in
trigger areas causing more danger to the environment,
the temple and its properties, water and air and
structural safety of the temple pound stands hindered by
the resistance of the people at large. They are still
continuing the struggle in different methods to stop the
present mining of the company. |
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P.O.Payangadi, Pin 670303, Kannur Dist., Kerala St., Tel: 0091497
2874942, 2752655, E-mail: vadukunda@gmail.com |
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