A row is brewing over the government’s decision to declare a large area of revenue land as a reserve forest at Chinnakkanal near Munnar in Idukki.
All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), Kerala, the farmers’ wing of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and Idukki MP, Dean Kuriakose, have opposed the government’s decision to declare 364.39 hectares in Chinnakkanal village under the Devikulam forest range in Idukki a forest reserve.
AIKS State vice-president Mathew Varghese asked how the government can declare revenue land as reserve forest land.
