Three independent members of the Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority (KCZMA) has repeatedly written to authority demanding a discussion on the sub-committee report on coastal regulation zone violation by realty firm DLF in Kochi.
The demand comes in the wake of the non-inclusion of the sub-committee report in the agenda of the authority meeting to be held on Thursday.
The sub-committee had reportedly concluded that the DLF housing project at Chilavannoor came up in violation of the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) guidelines. The project involved reclamation and the site was identified as pokkali fields in the approved Coastal Zone Management Plan of the region in 1996. The panel had also found that the project was built in violation of the Floor Area Ratio of the region, according to sources.
Those who wrote to the authority include Baby John and the two sub-committee members, A. Ramachandran and K. Padmakumar.
Though the members had earlier demanded the inclusion of the report in the agenda of the meeting considering the gravity of the offence involved, it was not included in the agenda that was circulated this week. The State government had also assured the State Assembly, following Opposition protests that it would act on the alleged violation after obtaining the panel report. Irked by the refusal of the authority to include the item in the agenda, one of the members said that he would raise the demand at the meeting. K.K. Ramachandran, Member Secretary of the Authority, said that the sub committee report on DLF was likely to be discussed as an out-of-the-agenda item considering the demand of the members. Repeated attempts to obtain the comments of V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, Chairman of the KCZMA, didn’t succeed.
