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The Kerala State Pollution Control Board is a body of the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of the State of Kerala, India. The board is charged with enforcing laws related to environmental protection. The Pollution Control Board has been established as a regulatory authority for implementing various pollution control laws.
Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, social reformer, freedom fighter and the founder of the Nair Service Society. The Nair Service Society was formed on 31 October 1914 by Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai [2] as a reaction to perceived communal slights in the princely state of Travancore in southern India, which now forms a part of the state of Kerala. [3]
Kerala Fibre Optic Network (K-FON) is a public-funded initiative by the Kerala government that aims to provide high-speed Internet connectivity to the whole Indian state of Kerala. [1]
The alliance first came into power in Kerala in 1981 under K. Karunakaran. It led the Kerala government in 1981 - 82 (Karunakaran), 1982 - 87 (Karunakaran), 1991 - 96 (Karunakaran and A. K. Antony), 2001 - 06 (Antony and Oommen Chandy) and 2011 - 16 . The party has strong bases in Ernakulam and Kottayam regions of central Kerala.
Tribals in Kerala are classified by Scheduled Tribes Development Department, Government of Kerala into three sub-sets (Particularly Vulnerable, Marginalised and Minorities). [ 2 ] According to the 2011 Census of India , the Scheduled Tribe population in Kerala is 484.839 (1.5 % of the total population). [ 2 ]
Poykayil Sree Kumara Gurudevan (17 February 1879, in Eraviperoor – 1939), known as Poykayil Appachan or Poykayil Yohannan, was a spiritual leader, poet, Dalit emancipator, renaissance leader and the founder of the socio-religious movement Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha ("God's Society of Obvious Salvation").
The caste system in Kerala differed from that found in the rest of India. While the Indian caste system generally divided the four-fold Varna division of the society into Brahmins , Kshatriyas , Vaishyas and Shudras , in Kerala, there existed only two varnas: Brahmins and Shudras , out of these four, while others were classified as Avarna.
Periyar river at Bhoothathankettu near Kothamangalam, Ernakulam.. The Periyar has a total length of approximately 244 kilometres (152 mi) and a catchment area of 5,398 square kilometres (2,084 sq mi), of which 5,284 square kilometres (2,040 sq mi) is in Kerala and 114 square kilometres (44 sq mi) is in Tamil Nadu.