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Vizhinjam Port PPP- Approval for Viability Gap Funding by the Centre- Has MOF considered the CAG report?

Vizhinjam Port PPP- Approval for Viability Gap Funding by the Centre- Has MOF considered the CAG report?

To Smt Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister Dear Smt Sitharaman, The Vizhinjam Port project being set up in Kerala as a “Landlord PPP” project involves partial financial support from the Centre towards “Viability GAP Funding”, in accordance with the PPP format developed by the erstwhile Planning Commission. The Kerala State Govt, after inviting bids from prospective promoters for the PPP[Read More…]

by — 11/12/2022 — Comments are Disabled — India
CPI(M) and BJP Become “Twin Brothers” in Kerala in Their Ignominious Servility to Adani!

CPI(M) and BJP Become “Twin Brothers” in Kerala in Their Ignominious Servility to Adani!

Introduction While these line are being written, in continuation of the BJP-CPI (M) joint meeting in solidarity with Adani, the CPI (M) led Kerala government has given its green signal before the High Court of Kerala for the deployment of Central Forces at Vizhinjam to safeguard the corporate interests of Adani, biggest Indian corporate and world’s third richest according to[Read More…]

by — 05/12/2022 — Comments are Disabled — India
Fish Workers’ Agitation: Kerala’s Vizhinjam Anti Adani Port Struggle For Survival

Fish Workers’ Agitation: Kerala’s Vizhinjam Anti Adani Port Struggle For Survival

The historical agitation by the coastal people of Trivandrum has crossed 120 days. The struggle has been going on at Vizhinjam all these days under the leadership of the Trivandrum Latin archdiocese raising 7 demands including the demand that construction of the harbour has to be stopped and the destruction it has already caused to the coast to be enquired[Read More…]

by — 19/11/2022 — Comments are Disabled — Environmental Protection
Solidarity Statement Against Malicious Slandering of Activists Who are Fighting Against Adani International Seaport at Vizhinjam, Kerala, India

Solidarity Statement Against Malicious Slandering of Activists Who are Fighting Against Adani International Seaport at Vizhinjam, Kerala, India

The coastal fishing community is on a struggle path against the disastrous International seaport which is being built at Vizhinjam by Adani ports.  The port has resulted in coastal erosion leading to the disappearance of coasts and the destruction of houses in the fishing villages.  The dredging in the port will result in the loss of local fishing habitats leading[Read More…]

by — 07/11/2022 — Comments are Disabled — India
Why this Adani port project is being opposed by coastal communities

Why this Adani port project is being opposed by coastal communities

Opposition to Vizhinjam Port Project Must be Seen in the Wider Context of Protecting Coastal Ecology and Communities The wider discussion on coastal areas often takes place in the context of their beauty and tourism potential. However ecologists place more emphasis on seeing coastal areas as very significant as well as sensitive areas whose development activities should be carefully monitored[Read More…]

by — 30/08/2022 — Comments are Disabled — India
Letter from Anti Vizhinjam Adani Port struggle front

Letter from Anti Vizhinjam Adani Port struggle front

Dear Sisters , Today  5 of us women have left our homes to participate and sit as Satyagrahis in the small pandal near Thiruvannathapuram Domestic terminal where the Anti Adani Vizhinjam Port struggle reaches its 50th day. Many of you may wonder why we are here and what we are trying to communicate by this Satyagraha. Titled the Indefinite Satyagraha[Read More…]

by — 26/07/2022 — Comments are Disabled — Environmental Protection
Adani’s Vizhinjam Port: An Appeal To Chief Minister of Kerala

Adani’s Vizhinjam Port: An Appeal To Chief Minister of Kerala

Respected Chief Minister of Kerala, We are a group of people living in different parts of Kerala and working in social-cultural –educational –political and environmental fields. We are deeply concerned about the equitable and sustainable development of the State based on social and ecological justice. The fishers of this State whom you referred to as Kerala’s army has been praised[Read More…]

by — 27/06/2022 — Comments are Disabled — Environmental Protection
Vizhinjam: Between Jesus, Marx And Adani

Vizhinjam: Between Jesus, Marx And Adani

Jesus Christ walked on water as per certain Christian belief systems. It appears that the local clergy who supported the struggle of the fishing community against Vizhinjam Transit Harbour has finally decided to allow Adani to walk over a globally significant bio-diversity region of an ocean in Kerala. The fisher people were on strike for 12 days. The Communist government[Read More…]

by — 05/11/2017 — 1 comment — Environmental Protection
As Vizhinjam Struggle Enters 11th Day, A Call – Adani Baby, Quit Kerala

As Vizhinjam Struggle Enters 11th Day, A Call – Adani Baby, Quit Kerala

The work of Adani on Vizhinjam Transit Harbour has stopped due to the struggle of the local people. The struggle is on the 11th day. Both Adani and the Kerala Government are embarassed. Now, the possibility would be on negotiations for rehabilitation and compensation. How can you rehabilitate and how can you compensate? The southern tip of Arabean sea is[Read More…]

by — 02/11/2017 — 2 comments — Environmental Protection
Adani Port In Vizhinjam Hits A Road Block As Locals Step Up Agitation

Adani Port In Vizhinjam Hits A Road Block As Locals Step Up Agitation

Adani Port in Vizhinjam, near Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital of Kerala, India has hit a road block with local people started agitating against the port. The agitation has entered into the fourth day and is likely to intensify as there is no immediate solution to their demands. Piling and other work is stalled. Hundreds of fisherfolk, including women and children,[Read More…]

by — 27/10/2017 — 1 comment — Environmental Protection
Protest Against Adani Port In Vizhinjam Gathers Momentum

Protest Against Adani Port In Vizhinjam Gathers Momentum

  The struggle against the proposed Vizhinjam International Deepwater port by AAP had kick started with the 8days long district wide travel in a vehicle with corner meetings at various points and a conclusion on every evening at important venues. The jatha had covered 14 legislative assembly constituencies in the district. On an average 20 persons were travelling with the[Read More…]

by — 27/07/2017 — 2 comments — Environmental Protection
AAP Launches Struggle Against Adani Port In Vizhinjam

AAP Launches Struggle Against Adani Port In Vizhinjam

First phase of 8 day long campaign exposing the scam in Vizhinjam port project started on 15th July was inaugurated by Aam Admi Party Kerala state convener Adv. CR Neelakandan . The campaign covering entire Trivandrum where the new port is coming up. Every day campaign team with announcement vehicle covering 16 points and various speakers addressing the crowd at[Read More…]

by — 22/07/2017 — 3 comments — India
The Adani Port In Kerala Runs Into Rough Weather

The Adani Port In Kerala Runs Into Rough Weather

The Vizhinjam sea port being constructed by Adani Ports and SEZ Private Limited has run into rough weather as the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) report has found that the  unfavourable conditions in the concession agreement of the project have gone against the interests of the Kerala State government.  The CAG  report says that the standard concession period for PPP[Read More…]

by — 24/05/2017 — 2 comments — India
Vizhinjam Port: An Economic Mirage

Vizhinjam Port: An Economic Mirage

Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Port, was awarded to the sole bidder Adani Ports & SEZ in 2015 by the previous Congress-led UDF government, almost half a century after the project was first mooted and 20 years after the proceedings started in 1995. The port is being developed as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) project on a design, build, finance, operate[Read More…]

by — 25/02/2017 — 1 comment — India
Blowing In The Wind In Vizhinjam – A Music Video In The Making

Blowing In The Wind In Vizhinjam – A Music Video In The Making

The extreme southern coastal landscape in India perhaps has been one of the most beautiful regions, despite all human interventions that have taken place so far to destroy it. Strong waves, good beaches connecting hills with coconut trees mark its beauty. This region is also one of the richest aquatic biodiversity. There are twenty wedge banks in the world today,[Read More…]

by — 19/12/2016 — 1 comment — Environmental Protection
How A Communist Should Read The CAG Report On Vizhinjam Transit Harbour

How A Communist Should Read The CAG Report On Vizhinjam Transit Harbour

How should a socially committed communist react when his or her leaders are working for the capitalists? This seems to be a question for a number of sensitive communists in Kerala. Karl Marx envisaged the restructuring of the control of means of production in the economic process of society where by the the means of production will be controlled by[Read More…]

by — 26/10/2016 — 1 comment — India
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan greets Adani Ports CEO Karan Adani in Thiruvananthapuram

Will CPM Learn From Its Mistakes In Bengal?

The former Acting Chairman of JN Port, Mumbai, Jose Paul writes: `The shipping ministry has reportedly decided to establish an International Container Transshipment Port at Colachel in Tamil Nadu at an estimated cost of about 27,000 crore. There is already a container transshipment terminal at Vallarpadam in Cochin. About 105 nautical miles south of Vallarpadam, in Vizhinjam, another container transshipment[Read More…]

by — 27/08/2016 — 1 comment — Environmental Protection
Blowing In The Wind In Vizhinjam

Blowing In The Wind In Vizhinjam

How many stones should a Vizhinjam Port fill
So that life in the sea will be gone?
How many houses will the project destroy
So that the leaders will look look down with shame?
How many crores will an Adani loot
From taxes of the people of this land?
The answer my friend, is blowing in wind
The answer is blowing in the wind.

by — 29/07/2016 — Comments are Disabled — Arts/Literature, Environmental Protection
10 Questions To Kerala CM On Vizhinjam Harbour Project

10 Questions To Kerala CM On Vizhinjam Harbour Project

How do we evaluate yesterday’s honeymoon meeting between Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Karan Adani? 1. During the last few days, the news that Adani would step back from Vlizhinjam and that he would go ahead with Colachel Port had given some hopes to activists in Kerala and worries for activists in Tamil Nadu. But with yesterday’s meeting, Karan[Read More…]

by — 18/06/2016 — 1 comment — Environmental Protection
20 Questions To LDF Government: Does It Want To Turn Vizhinjam Into A Nandigram And Commit Harakiri?

20 Questions To LDF Government: Does It Want To Turn Vizhinjam Into A Nandigram And Commit Harakiri?

A wave of the left in Kerala has caught many people by surprise. Perhaps, ten days before the state assembly elections, nobody could predict that the people of Kerala would express such major support to LDF in this manner, though the possible success was predicted by many. What was more welcome was also the list of promises which the LDF[Read More…]

by — 18/06/2016 — Comments are Disabled — Editor's Picks, Environmental Protection