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Malappuram municipality has achieved a historical milestone by transforming Puliyettummal’s two-decade-old discarded dump into a reclaimed five-acre greenish abstraction adjacent Karathodu.
Minister for Local Self Governments M.B. Rajesh inaugurated the reclaimed onshore connected Saturday (October 11, 2025). He lauded the municipality for achieving the impossible.
The municipality reclaimed the onshore by removing astir 11,000 cubic metre discarded dumped successful the past 2 decades by spending ₹11.40 crore nether the Kerala Solid Waste Management Project (KSWMP).
The Puliyettummal reclamation task defied the communal content that discarded absorption initiatives pb to irreversible onshore loss, said Mr. Rajesh. He said that Malappuram municipality’s attack was an illustration for Kerala and a exemplary for different section bodies arsenic it overcame method hurdles that often stall projects.
He added that Kerala would go the archetypal State successful the state to wholly destruct discarded dumps wrong 1 and a fractional years.
P. Ubaidulla, MLA, presided implicit the function. P.K. Kunhalikutty, MLA, inaugurated the greenish loop project. E.T. Mohammed Basheer, MP, felicitated the Haritha Karma Sena. District Collector V.R. Vinod, KSWMP manager Divya S. Iyer, Malappuram municipal president Mujeeb Kaderi, vice-chairman Fousiya Kunhippu, and respective councillors spoke.
