Alappuzha Set to Celebrate its 250 th anniversary

Alappuzha is a little town in Kerala and is one of the most popular tourist destination in India, due to its unique landscape and scenic beauty. Alappuzha is also known as the 'Venice of the East' and tourist across the world visit this place to enjoy its amazing natural beauty.  This beautiful town will turn 250 next year  and the officials are planning to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Alappuzha town with some comprehensive makeover.

As a part of this the municipal authorities are planning to tackle the problems caused by monsoon in Alappuzha. As per the Alappuzha Municipality authorities various task forces have been constituted to make reports based on suggestions they get from the public, trade and business representatives, political parties and residents associations. These report would help them to tackle issues related to health, drinking water, sanitation and traffic.

The main agenda would be to make a "clean Alappuzha" by 2012 and this would mainly be based around a 6 point action plan. This would include the cleaning of the canals in the town, strengthening the solid waste disposal system in Alappuzha with the introduction of a method for waste segregation at the source itself, implementation of a special health package, total revamp of the drainage and sewage system with help from the IIT, Kharagpur, conservation of the Vembanad lake ecosystem and finally the completion of Alappuzha drinking water project.

The town of Alappuzha was found in 1762 by  Diwan Raja Kesavadas  and was also known as the commercial capital of the erstwhile State of Travancore. But in the course of time the city became more congested and the lack of proper planning made the matter more worse. Hope that 250th anniversary celebration of Alappuzha town, would help to solve most of the problems that is being faced by the beautiful town of Alappuzha.

Alappuzha District Police Turns Health Conscious

In a recent move by the Alappuzha district police, they have decided to give high priority to their health. Taking a leaf out of the recent reports on the health issues being caused by the over use of mobile phones, the Alappuzha district police have decided to reduce the usage of mobile phones among the police personnel in the district.

Alappuzha Superintendent of Police C H Nagaraju has instructed all his subordinates to avoid use of cell phones except in emergencies. He also instructed to use the facility of SMS to inform importance matters, rather than making a call on the mobile phone.  As per C H Nagaraju the police personnel were facing various health issues due to the over usage of mobile phones and this can be brought under control only by avoiding the usage of mobile phone for calling. Sending SMS does not do that much harm when compared to making a call on a mobile phone.

Hope that this move would improve the health conditions of the Alappuzha district police personnel and make them equipped to serve in a better health. This should not be just confined to the police personnel, rather everyone should try to learn to avoid using mobile phone every often. Even the common people can take this step by reducing the use of mobile phones and using only SMS in case of information transfer.

Police - Student Clash Leaves 31 Injured in Alappuzha

In a protest march taken out to the district collectorate of Alappuzha by the Students Federation of India (SFI) on Monday, a clash between the police and the students occured leaving 31 injured. The protest was done demanding the issues in the self-financing education sector be settled. Once the protest got aggressive police had to start lathi charge which was the main cause of the injuries. Both students and the police got injured during the fierce violence that erupted during the protest.

As per the Police the students started throwing stones at them when they tried to disperse the students. The students also attacked the police with sticks and in the course the violence 5 Police officials and 26 students got injured. SFI Alappuzha district joint secretary Sibi Varghese and SFI area secretary Mohammed Ashiq were among the students who got injured during the violence.

The police have arrested 25 students and produced them before the court,  while cases have been registered against 150 persons. The protest march, which started at 12 noon, turned violent when a group of  students tried to barge into the collectorate overcoming the police barricades. When they were stopped by the police, some of the students used sticks to attack the policemen. Once the police started the lathi charge, most of the students got canned and some of the students also tried to escape by entering the nearby shops. The fierce situation was lightened only after District Superintendent of Police C.H. Nagaraju reached the spot.