{"id":235377,"date":"2023-03-31T19:31:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235377"},"modified":"2023-03-31T19:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:01:21","slug":"vembanad-ashtamudi-ngt-slaps-rs-10-crore-on-kerala-for-its-failure-to-protect-ramsar-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vembanad-ashtamudi-ngt-slaps-rs-10-crore-on-kerala-for-its-failure-to-protect-ramsar-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Vembanad, Ashtamudi: NGT slaps Rs 10 crore on Kerala for its failure to protect Ramsar sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cVembanad, Ashtamudi: NGT slaps Rs 10 crore on Kerala for its failure to protect Ramsar sites\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 31st March 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 crore on the Kerala government for failing to protect the Vembanad and Ashtamudi lakes, which are included in the Ramsar list of wetlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Vembanad Lake?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/prime-minister-lauds-efforts-of-kerala-man-for-vembanad-lake-clean-up\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Ashtamudi Lake?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ashtamudi Lake is located in Kerala<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a backwater lake. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is also called the gateway to the backwaters of Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The importance of Ashtamudi Kayal dates back to the times of the Romans and Phoenicians in the 14th century. It was considered as one of the most important ports among the five ports used for Chinese trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kallada River is a major river discharging into the Ashtamudi Lake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a famous island in this lake called Munroe island. It is a group of eight small islands in this lake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another island called Chavara south is said to be rich in minerals. It is a small village with factories set up for the extraction of the minerals present here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is also another island called Thekkumbhagom island. This is also a small village and is significant because the composer of the first epic poetry in Malayalam named Azhakath Padmanabha Kurup hails from this village.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cVembanad, Ashtamudi: NGT slaps Rs 10 crore on Kerala for its failure to protect Ramsar sites\u201d published in The Hindu on 31st March 2023 What is the News? The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 crore on the Kerala government for failing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vembanad-ashtamudi-ngt-slaps-rs-10-crore-on-kerala-for-its-failure-to-protect-ramsar-sites\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vembanad, Ashtamudi: NGT slaps Rs 10 crore on Kerala for its failure to protect Ramsar sites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-235377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}