Environmentalist M.K. Prasad Passes Away

M.K. Prasad, one of the leading figures of the Silent Valley Hydro-electric project that marked the beginning of the environmental movement in Kerala, passed away on 17 January 2022.
Bowing to unrelenting pressure from ecologists, the government was forced to abandon the project.
The Silent Valley forests were declared as a national park by the Union Government on November 15, 1984.