Chief Minister Oommen Chandy during a meeting with the group headed by eminent space scientist and planning commission member K Kasturirangan mooted this idea here.
The nine-member group was set up by Environment Ministry in the wake of opposition by several states, including Kerala, to the Madhav Gadgil committee report which has termed Western Ghats as an extremely ecologically sensitive region and favoured restricted mining and other development activities.
Considering the state government's request, the working group members would visit Idukki and Waynad districts, where the adverse impact of the Gadgil report was more, Kasturirangan said after his meeting with the Chief Minister.
The state also presented before the committee its declared stand that most of the recommendations of the Madhav Gadgil committee on the Western Ghats were 'impractical' to implement. It had demanded a relook into the entire report.
The state's stand that most of the recommendations were unrealistic was formalised at an all-party meeting yesterday.
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