The MooLampilly (MCC) Coordination Committee filed a proposal for the Minister of income and demanded the decisions taken at the last meeting of the Monitoring Committee, which reviewed the advancement of the Moool lampilly package for families evicted for the connectivity of railways and roads to VallarPadam International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT).
The petition was submitted to the anniversary of the last meeting of the monitoring committee, chaired by the district collector on 27 June 2024. The committee, which was entrusted to meet the rehabilitation package per month, convened only irregularly, with long gaps between meetings. The meeting of June 2024 was the first at five years. The monitoring committee was created by another main secretary (income) after a meeting held in the Chamber of Chief Minister 6 June 2011.
It was expected that the committee was organizing monthly meetings to review the package and submit reports of the Minister of Income. Representatives of the evicted families continuously cooperated with the committee.
The authorities have to act on the decision adopted at the last meeting to issue Evictee cards to families, even though it did not include the state treasury. The decision to issue cards was taken at a meeting held in 2018 and MCC submitted all relevant data on eligible recipients. Although the district collector promised to solve the problems discussed at the last meeting within three months, there was little progress, MCC said in a statement here issued.
Cochin Port Trust (CPT) has to provide an update to the original promise of the government to offer the work of one eligible member from every evicted family within the rehabilitation package. At the last meeting, the CPT representative claimed that they did not know about the government order of 19 March 2008, which secured employment and promised to verify and report.
In 2008, a total of 316 families from Mulovukad, Moolampilly, Kothad, Cheralloor, Eloor, Manjummal, Vaduthala, Elamakkara and Ponkara for Railway and Roads for ICTT project without previous rehabilitation package were evicted. The District Administration is responsible for implementing the package, which the eviction provided with a permanent protest.
MCC asked why the government did not show the same urgency in performing the rehabilitation package as in the execution of eviction. So far, 38 Evictees have died without receiving the promised benefits, while many others remain in bed.
Published – 27th June 2025 01:00
