The SilverLine project will not only be wasteful, but also financially non-viable, environmental activist Medha Patkar has said. She was delivering the inaugural address at a mass gathering organised by the K-Rail Virudha Samithi (protest committee) here on Thursday against the SilverLine project and the valedictory of a march taken out from Kasaragod across 11 districts to the State capital.
Ms. Patkar said the protest against the project was a battle to save Kerala, its natural resources, and more than 20,000 families, but also the country from the high-speed development paradigm. “We want development, not destruction,’’ Ms. Patkar said.
