Inaugurating a development seminar hosted by the District Congress Committee at the municipal conference hall here on Friday, he said Northern Kerala has immense potential to emerge as an investment friendly region, if basic infrastructure is improved.
However, the district remained backward because of the authorities' failure in implementing the sanctioned schemes, he lamented. “The attitude needs to be changed. A sizeable number of people migrate to other States or abroad to get gainful employment,” he said.
Referring to the Central University of Kerala (CUK) coming up at Periye in the district, he said Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal had agreed to lay the foundation stone of the institution on July 21.
He said he would recommend setting up of a mobile Triveni outlet in Kasaragod Assembly segment so that essential goods would be available at affordable prices. Similar arrangements would be extended to other four Assembly segments in the district.
The KPCC president said a draft report compiled from the day-long seminar would be handed over to the P. Prabhakaran Commission, appointed by the government to study the development requirements of the district.
DCC president K. Velunthambu presided over the function which was attended by N.A. Nellikunnu and P.B. Abdul Razak, MLAs from Kasaragod and Manjeshwaram.
KPCC executive members P. Gangadharan Nair, M.C. Jose, C. K. Sreedharan, and M. Narayanan Kutty also addressed the function.
“Bid to scuttle probe”
Later, Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of the programme, Mr Chennithala accused the Communist Party of India-Marxist of diverting the ongoing police inquiry into the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T.P. Chandrasekharan.
He asked the party whether it was prepared to denounce its politics of violence in the wake of the revelations that pointed an accusing finger at the role of the CPI(M) in the murder case.
“The CPI(M) appears to be nervous about the outcome of the ongoing probe into the RMP leader's murder,” he said, alleging that the party was trying to scuttle the probe by threatening police officials and media persons.
To a query on the move to shift crucial institutions coming under the Central University of Kerala (CUK) to elsewhere in the State, he said such reports were baseless.
He said the medical college proposed under the CUK would be set up in Kasaragod, where hundreds were suffering from mysterious diseases attributed to endosulfan pesticide sprayed on the Plantation Corporation of Kerala's cashew estates.
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