: When the mass movement against the airport project at Aranmula hotted up, about 400 landless farm worker families attached to the Kerala Karshaka Sanghom and other Left parties encroached upon the illegally converted paddy land at Aranmula in January, 2013 demanding distribution of the excess land identified by the Taluk Land Board there among the landless.
As many as 50 families are currently staying in the converted portion of the Aranmula Puncha. The encroacher families pitched small huts and have been staying there since then. As many as 12 families dismantled their dwellings and shifted to the adjoining areas in the illegally converted portion of the Aranmula puncha to facilitate restoration of the natural stream on Monday.
