Environmentalist M.K. Prasad Passes Away

• 18 Jan 2022

• 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.