Today, 18th April 2010, our Honorable Minister for water Resources of Kerala, Shri N K Premachandran, launched the Water Card to the residents of Kunnamangalam Grama Panchayat by giving a copy to Shri U C Raman, MLA. In the inaugural speech the Honorable Minister promised that the scheme will we introduced throughout Kerala by dividing into Northern, Central and Souther sectors of kerla through water authority/Ground Water Department by providing Mobile Laboratories. He also promised to provide a mobile laboratory facility to CWRDM. He stressed the need for rejuvenating the local water bodies for drinking purposes instead of solely depending on pipe water provided by utilizing distant dam water. The function was presided by CWRDM Executive Director Professor Dr K V Jayakumar and the gathering was welcomed by Dr P S Harikumar, Head, Central water Analysis Laboratory. Shri Anil Kumar, Standing committee Chairman of Kunnamangalam Grama Panchayat felicitated. The function started with the prayer of Smt. Manjula, Technical Officer, CWRDM.
The Principal Investigator of the Project is Dr Madhavan Komath, Scientist, Central Water Analysis Laboratory of CWRDM. Shri Madhavan Komath joined in Water Quality and Environment Division(later renamened as Environmental Studies Division) in 1985 as Technical Assistant and through his sustained hard work he acquired M Sc from Annamalai University through Distance Education and got his Doctorate (PhD) from Pondichery University. He is a humanitarian scientist. He expressed his views through his vote of thanks speech. He invoked the gathering to love water and if we do so the present day problem of water pollution will be over.
The Principal Investigator of the Project is Dr Madhavan Komath, Scientist, Central Water Analysis Laboratory of CWRDM. Shri Madhavan Komath joined in Water Quality and Environment Division(later renamened as Environmental Studies Division) in 1985 as Technical Assistant and through his sustained hard work he acquired M Sc from Annamalai University through Distance Education and got his Doctorate (PhD) from Pondichery University. He is a humanitarian scientist. He expressed his views through his vote of thanks speech. He invoked the gathering to love water and if we do so the present day problem of water pollution will be over.
Water Card is a new concept introduced by Dr Madhavan Komath who was very much interested in doing scitific work relavant to common people. Once he was telling our former Executive Director Dr P Basak for introducing water testing fecility in CWRDM for common people but it was declined sice CWRDM is not a service centre. Now he has fulfilled his ambition through water card project. I congratulate him for introducing this concept to help and serve the people of Kunnamangalam Panchayat and its possible extension to other panchayats of Kerala. Dr Madhavan Komath's Water Card gives potability status of water which is entirely different from Water Card cocept of Imperial Irrigation Department of California who used water card as certificate of ownership and autherisation of agent or tenant who is autherised to receive water.
With best wishes,
ktv.
With best wishes,
ktv.
