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`Stop drawing water form KWA pumps'

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KWA employees meet inaugurated

KOCHI : A trade union conference of the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) employees here on Saturday demanded that steps be taken to put an end to the practice of taking water for Jalanidhi project from the pumps of KWA.

The conference was inaugurated by Kanam Rajendran. Mankode Radhakrishnan, MLA, presided. AITUC State vice-president E.A. Kumaran, State president P. Raju, K.S. Krishna, secretary All India Bank Employees Association, Kerala Electricity Workers' Federation vice-president A.N. Rajan, CITU leader J. Sasankan, INTUC leaders Abdul Basheer and Edakkulam Hameed participated in a seminar in connection with the conference.

The union also demanded that the 83 acres of land of the KWA in Kozhikode handed over to a private group for setting up a tourism project called `Green City', should be returned to the authority. The land, set apart for starting a drainage project, was handed over to the company, Kerala Tourism Limited for the Green City project. The drainage project had envisaged to protect the large tracts of mangroves contained in the land with the by products of the drainage project.

Other demands, including the request for implementing the pay revision of the authority employees whose last pay revision was in 1997, were also raised by the conference, which concluded on Saturday.

Earlier, CPI national executive committee member Pannian Raveendran, MP, inaugurated the delegates' session of the 11th State conference of the All Kerala Water Authority Employees' Union here.

AITUC State secretary Kanam Rajendran presided. Kerala Mahila Sangham State secretary Kamala Sadanandan, district panchayat vice-president K.N. Sugathan and Joint Council of State Service Organisations general secretary Jos Prakash spoke.

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