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‘Intensify stir against Athirappilly project’

Photo: K.K. Najeeb

Picturesque: Writer Arundhati Roy at Athirappilly, near Thrissur, on Tuesday.

Chalakudy: Arundhati Roy, writer, has called upon the people of the State to intensify the agitation against the proposed Athirappilly hydel project. She was delivering the keynote address at a convention, ‘Jalaravam,’ organised by the Chalakudy River Protection Forum and the Athirappilly Action Council on the 100th day of the agitation against the proposal here on Tuesday.

She said the Athirappilly project was politically unwise, economically unviable and environmentally unsustainable.

“Conventional agitation strategies hardly work these days. Hence, evolve a non-violent, yet militant, struggle to stop the project. If the foundation for the dam has been laid, throw it away,” she said. The authorities invariably had a shrewd strategy to revive projects when agitators got exhausted. “Maintain your energy level,” she told environmentalists who campaigned against the project. Sukumar Azhikode, critic, inaugurated the meeting.

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