The state's response to the report, to be submitted to the Experts' Panel of the Environment Ministry, held that it did not take into proper account the specific socio-economic and geographical features of Kerala.
This was made clear by the UDF Government in its response to the Gadgil report, drawn up by an expert committee and approved by the cabinet earlier this week.
Apart from its adverse fallout on the farm sector in the state, the suggestions would seriously affect electricity generation of the state, which mainly depends on hydel sources, the state's response release here today said.
"The Gadgil Committee recommendations will impose serious constraints on existing and proposed hydro-electric projects," it said.
Questioning the basic approach of the panel towards Kerala, the state complained that the recommendations did not take into account the fact that the state had for long been categorised into three geographical zones--highland, midland and coastal area.
However, the Gadgil report, which overlooked the fact that Kerala is not part of the Deccan Plateu, took the state into a single unit as far as conservation issues were concerned. As a result, Economically Sensitive Zones within the state were had been extended upto the coastal area by the panel.
The report also did not recognise such state-specific issues as its peculiar land utilisation, population pressures and socio-economic factors, it said. (MORE)
