If The Snake Birds Had A Vote...
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 7,
July 2011
One is not sure if Jairam Ramesh first heard of this IBA (Important Bird Area) in Kerala when AB Vajpayee penned his Kumarakom musings gazing at the Vembanad waters, or when Rahul Gandhi's new year vacation with his girlfriend at the lakeside hit headlines. That Ramesh has been impressed into realising the urgent need to preserve this site is obvious by the way in which he pledged to negotiate for a $20-million World Bank grant at UNDP to clean up the lake that gives livelihood to 16 lakh people. “Besides working on the R90-crore grant, I am sanctioning R10 crore immediately for restoration and regeneration of the lake, starting with desilting, sewage treatment and pollution control," Ramesh said on a recent visit. Read the full report here.
Source: M Sarita Varma, Financial Express.
