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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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