Kochi: Environmental note Prof.
M Prasad, a leading figure in the historic grassroots level movement to save the tropical rainforest in the valley of silence from the destruction, died on Monday morning, his colleague said here.
He is 89 years old.
He breathed his last breath at a private hospital here while undergoing treatment for Covid’s related complications, they said.
Prasad was the strength of the guidance behind the national movement against the movement of the state government to establish a hydroelectric project at Silent Valley in the Palakkad district in the 1970s.
Dear the unrelenting pressure from ecologists, the government was forced to leave the project.
The struggle was summoned in the early 80s after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assured that the silent valley forest would be protected.
Prasad, who holds various academic positions in Kerala, including the position of Deputy Visit of Pro Calicut University and Principal of Maharaja, Ernakulam, has also written many books in Malayalam about environmental problems and science.
Pinarayi Vijayan’s minister’s chairman spent Prasad’s death considering his contribution as leaders of the ecological movement.
Former Minister of Environment Jairam Ramesh and Opposition Leader of the State Assembly D Satheesan also recorded the destruction of Prasad.