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Major role for Kudumbasree: VS

FOCUS on farm sector: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan greeting Kudumbasree members in Thalassery on Monday.

THALASSERY: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has said the Kudumbasree movement has a great role to play in increasing agricultural production in the State.

Mr. Achuthanandan was Inaugurating a gathering of members of Kudumbasree neighbourhood groups at Thalassery on Monday in connection with the 10th anniversary of the Kudumbasree Mission,

The Chief Minister said steps had to be taken to ensure that all available land should be utilised for increasing agricultural production for achieving self-reliance in the agricultural sector.

Calling upon the people to actively involve in activities to enhance agricultural production, the Chief Minister said that a major obstacle to the efforts to promote agriculture was the shortage of workers. He said that the young people were not willing to be engaged in agricultural activities.

Mr. Achuthanandan also asked local bodies to ensure that the funds allocated to them were fully utilised.

He said the Kudumbasree movement had raised the social status of women.

Referring to the Janasree movement without naming it, he said that such initiatives started by vested interest groups to destroy the Kudumbasree movement would not succeed.

The Kudumbasree movement had brought in changes in society and families, he added.

Stating that the State government was taking firm action against the ‘land mafia’ in the State, Mr. Achuthanandan said that goons who had been very active in the State five years ago were now posing as god men.

These god men and the land mafia had mushroomed in the State during the previous United Democratic Front rule, Mr. Achuthanandan said.

A situation existed today when a family having plans to build a modest house on a three-cent land had to spend lakhs of rupees for land alone, he said.

District panchayat president K.K. Narayanan presided over the function.

Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan distributed financial assistance to panchayats.

P. Sahteedevi, MP, MLAs Ramachandran Kadannappally, K.K. Shylaja and K.P. Mohanan, and District Collector K.P. Mohanan were among those who were present at the function.

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