Paddy field, Airport decisions draw flak at KPCC panel meet

Differences of opinion surfaced at the KPCC-UDF Government coordination meeting here on Wednesday on the issue of the Aranmula airport, with senior leaders V M Sudheeran and K Muraleedharan underscoring that there was no need to develop an airport after destroying vast tracts of ecologically fragile paddy fields.


Both of them felt that development of already established airports would have been more appropriate.  Sudheeran said that since a decision had been taken, the government should ensure that at least 26 per cent shares of the private sector airport project should be vested with the State Government. The dilly-dallying of the State Government on the move to handover Central Government-backed schools in minority communities dominated areas to aided school managements also attracted flak from the duo.