‘Urbanisation posing challenges in Kozhikode’

Urbanisation is posing challenges specified arsenic rising aerial pollution, nationalist wellness issues and labour unrest successful Kozhikode, P.P. Anil Kumar, Professor and Chairman, Centre of Excellence successful Urban Planning and Design, National Institute of Technology-Calicut, has said. He was delivering the keynote code astatine an lawsuit successful representation of the precocious environmentalist A. Achuthan present connected Thursday (October 30).

Mr. Anil Kumar said that Kozhikode had yet to person debates connected improvement linked to a maestro plan. Steps were yet to beryllium taken to absorption connected areas specified arsenic the Conolly Canal arsenic a large tourism attraction. The authorities request to power backstage vehicles and make harmless cycling tracks and walking areas. The accent should beryllium connected enhancing nationalist transport, and roads should beryllium constructed with this aim, helium said. The lawsuit was organised by the Chavara Cultural Centre and the Society for the Protection of the Environment Kerala.