Forest Minister, K.B. Ganeshkumar, will inaugurate this year’s Wildlife Week celebrations at a ceremonial function to be held at the Elephant Camp at Konni on Tuesday afternoon.
The Minister will also inaugurate the small-scale value-adding centre for forest produces and an herbal garden set up at the Elephant Camp on the occasion.
Adoor Prakash, Revenue Minister, will preside over the function and Anto Antony, MP, will deliver the keynote address.
Babu George, District Panchayat president; G.J.Teggie, Additional Principal Chief Forest Conservator; V.N.Jithendran, District Collector; Leela Rajan, Konni Block Panchayat president; Babu Veliyath, grama panchayat president; Robin Peter, District Panchayat member; G.Mohandas, Chief Forest Conservator; P.Mohanraj, District Congress Committee member; K.Ananthagopan, Communist Party of India (Marxist) district secretary; P.Prasad, Communist Party of India district secretary; K.E.Abdul Rahman, Indian Union Muslim League district president; Victor T.Thomas, Kerala Congress(M) district president; K.R.Harish of KC(B), and V.N.Unni, Bharatiya Janata Party district president, will also address the inaugural function.