Kerala ,once known for its 'Kerala Model of Development' with quality life, now has turned an unhygienic and unhealthy land with mounting garbage, polluted land and water and highly frustrated people for the defective or lunatic development strategies followed both by left and right governments alternatively. Metro cities, shopping malls and complexes, places of worships and political party offices are growing, though power failure and shortage of pure drinking water a regular feature. Kerala needs Mega Solar Energy Plants, Water Purification System and High Tech Waste Management System besides New Generation Knowledge Industries, the basis of a new Kerala Model of Development.

1. KERALA NEEDS NOT ANY MORE NEW MALL, CHURCHE,
MOSQUE, TEMPLE AND POLITICAL PARTY OFFICE;
BUT MEGA SOLAR ENERGY, SEWEAGE
AND WATER PURIFICATION PLANTS
DR.RAJU M. MATHEW

2. KERALA ON A SLOW DEATH OR SUICIDE PATH
• Kerala, the southern Indian State, is noted with 100 per cent literacy, high
level news paper reading, television watching and IT penetration, affluent
lifestyle, personal hygiene, neat and fashionable dressing and high level
health consciousness. But it stands top in the poor and inefficient waste
management so as to have a series of mounting garbage in almost all cities
and villages, in polluting its lakes, rivers, streams, ponds and wells so as to
spread contagious diseases both during rainy seasons and hot summer
periods.
• For developing cities, shopping malls, housing complexes, tourist
resorts, amusement parks, religious centers, almost all important fertile
paddy and vegetable fields and wet lands in Kerala have been destroyed. In
spite of frequent rains for over six months and availability of several
lakes, rivers and streams, Kerala is facing acute shortage of pure drinking
water and everybody is paying a very high price for even contaminated
drinking water. The entire Kerala is on a slow and steady path of death or
suicide also for consuming poisonous food and drinks contaminated with
over-dosage pesticides and hormones, preservatives besides highly
adulterated cooking oil, curry or masala powders and artificially taste-adding
deadly chemicals.

3. RELIGIONS AND POLITICAL PARTIES
• Frequent religious pilgrimage and celebrations and political rallies and agitations
conducted in Kerala result in adding garbage and polluting the
streets, rivers, lakes and narrow payments. After the Sabrimala Hindu
Pilgrimage, Maramon Christian Convention and Cherukolpuza Hindu
convention, for the pollution of the Pamapa and Manimala Rivers, deadly and
contagious diseases spread over one third part of Kerala. Muslims too have their
role. After every major convention of political parties, cities in Kerala turned into
garbage boxes. Every election in Kerala makes the nook and corner of Kerala dirty
and ugly.
• In polluting the environment and upsetting the ecology, Hindus, Muslims and
Christians with their religious functions competing each other. In adding dirt and
filth and polluting water, major political parties like the Indian National
Congress, Communist Parties, Muslims League, Kerala Congress and etc. have
played a crucial role.
• Recently, Communist and Left Parties in Kerala launched a mass agitation against
‘Solar Scam’ bringing several thousand party workers to Trivandrum, the state
capital. Within two days, they converted the capital city as a centre of
filth, garbage and pollution, mainly the human waste. Had they not been
suspended the agitation, thousands of people in Trivndrum would have been
wiped out with deadly contagious diseases like
cholera, dysentery, fever, jaundice , chicken guinea, and etc. The paradox is that
in the name of 200 million rupee solar scam, the agitating political parties, the
ruling political parties and the Kerala Government, besides the general public
have spent more than 1000 million Indian rupees.

4. WEALTH AND POSH HOUSES OF GODS
• In Kerala, every sect or cult of Islam, Hinduism and Christianity is eager to raise
money and build posh houses for its God, spending millions or billions. In
Kerala, all major political parties like Marxist Party, CPI, Congress, Muslim League
and Kerala Congress have no problem in raising billions either for their political
rallies or constructing party offices and study or research centers.
• Every Religion or political party is competing each other in mobilizing hundred
thousands people for their celebrations, conventions and rallies and also in
polluting streets, rivers, beaches or even paddy fields without any concern for
the damages that they are committed to the environment and the normal life of
the common people. Recently, the Left Democratic Front(LDF) proves that it is
capable of destroying any city in Kerala with their solar scam agitation.
• Multi- millionaires have conquered Kerala with their Mega Malls, Posh
Resorts, super-speciality hospitals, amusement parks and mega residential flats
tapping up to 50% of the electricity and drinking water, causing ecological
damages and keeping the entire city without water or electricity for their
unimaginable power over the government machinery, religions, political parties
and media. Ordinary or common people are always their victims. In Kerala
anybody can do any harm to the Nature or ecology and upset the life and means
of livelihood of the common people without making any compensation for the
prevailing high level corruptions and inefficiency. As a result, life of over 85%
people in Kerala is getting miserable.

5. THEIR WELATH AND THE PEOPLE’S WELFARE
• The wealth and money accumulated or under the disposal of
Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Marxist Party (CPM), Communist
Party of India (CPI), Indian National Congress, Muslim League and
Kerala Congress in Kerala are in terms of several billions, capable
of providing the best waste management, pure and clean drinking
water and the best education and health care system for the
entire Kerala.
• By using a small fraction of the precious gold and stones under the
disposal of Sri Padbhanabha Temple, Trivandrum City can be
provided with the world class water purification system, waste
management and infrastructure. Just like the old ghosts, religions
and political parties in Kerala have been burying down their
wealth and deny quality life to the people of Kerala.
• The wealth under their disposal really belongs to the people for
the public welfare and collective good. Instead, they are taxing the
people and adding their miseries. How can they ensure Heaven or
Paradise before or after death for their crimes against the
Humanity?

6. METRO CITIES AND WORLD-CLASS
SHOPPING MALLS
• Without any vision or long term strategy, Kerala has been developing
metro-cities, high ways and world class shopping malls, convention
centers and hotels and resorts, for the mediocre and corrupt political
leaderships and government officials coupled with indifferent religious
leaders, academics or intellectuals and media or channel people.
• Nobody is there in Kerala to set the priorities by taking into account the
long term interest of the people. Now Kerala boasts of having the
newspapers with highest circulation, highly watched TV channels, biggest
jewelry or sari shops and the most modern shopping malls or religious
retreat centers and wealthiest ‘god- men or women’.
• Recently, the EMKE Group set up the biggest shopping mall in India, the
Lulu Shopping and Entertainment Mall in the already congested
Ernakulum City creating a lot of traffic problem besides forcing several
other business concerns perish not only in Ernakulum but also in other
cities.
• Without ensuring pure drinking water, waste management, power
supply, infrastructure development and quality education, it is foolish and
suicidal for Kerala to go for metro cities and world class shopping malls.

7. COMPENSATE THE COMMON PEOPLE AND THE LAND
• No religion- temple, church or mosque or political party or
billionaire or shopping mall is above the land and the people. The
land and the people have the right to get the compensation for
every damage that they have incurred, done by the
religions, political parties or developmental programs. Every thing
must be in tune with the long term interest of the survival or
growth of the land and the people, for the God is there not in the
Heaven but within the land and the people.
• Nobody has any right to deny the means of livelihood or to
contaminate rivers or waters or streets in the name of any God or
ideology. Hindus, Muslims, Christians and the leaders or workers of
the political parties like the Marxist or Communist
Party, Congress, Muslim League, Kerala Congress, BJP, or the multi-
millionaire businessmen are to be made answerable or
accountable for every damage that they are made to the people or
environment with provision for compensation. It is time for
enacting such a Social Accountable Act and implementing it for
safeguarding the interest of the citizens and the land or
environment.

8. IMMEDIATE AGENDA FOR ACTION
• 1. Travancore Devsom Board is the agency in dealing with millions of the
Sabarimala Pilgrims who are responsible for polluting or contaminating
the Pampa River besides the Manimala River at Erumely; the Christians for
contaminating the river Pampa for the Maramon convention; the Hindus
and the Christians in polluting the Periyar either at Aluva or Malayatoor
.Various warring Muslim groups or sects, including the Sunnies and the
Mujahids, Jamayyete Islami and etc conduct conventions and rallies.
These agencies must set up mega sewerage treatment plants , solar
energy plants and water purification plants to protect the environments at
least in these places.
• 2. All major political parties in Kerala must be allotted at least one
Municipal or Corporation area with regard to waste management, water
purification and solar energy. The local administration must levy
substantial fees from Political Parties for Conducting Rallies and
Conventions at the rate of Rs 100 per person for a day and thereby using
the public utilities and damaging the environment or infrastructure.
• 3. Every temple, church or mosque and religious organization should have
the responsibility in water conservation and purification, waste
management and solar energy utilization within its jurisdiction.

9. IMMEDIATE AGENDA FOR ACTION
• 4. Business enterprises like the Lulu Mall, the Veegaland and other big
public or private enterprises must produce solar energy and conserve and
purify water for their own requirements, besides developing infrastructure
from their own account.
• 5. Mega Projects under Public-Private Participation in Solar Energy, Water
Purification, Waste Management and Infrastructure Development must be
launched making use of international funding, expertise and technology of
the European Union and other agencies.
• 6. The Government of Kerala must setup the Forest, River and
Environment Protection Authorities with judicial and executing powers in
almost all important parts of Kerala.
• 7. School curriculums must incorporate lessons on Solar Energy, Water
Purification, Waste Management and Environment Protection, including
land, water and forest protection. Mass Awareness Campaign must be
launched for the interest of the General Public.

10. MAKE KERALA GOD’S OWN PARADISE
• People in Kerala every year spend billions for religious
functions, including pilgrimage, political parties and
their rallies, drinking spirit or liquor and putting
cosmetics. If they spend just 10 per cent of these
expenses for water conservation and
purification, waste management and generating solar
energy besides infrastructure development, Kerala
would have been turned ‘God’s Own Paradise’ in
stead of Devil’s Own Hell created by the
Hindus, Muslims and Christians besides the left and
the right political parties, medias and channels and
the corrupt and inefficient rulers and bureaucrats.
The people of Kerala are entitled to live in the God’s
Own Paradise.