Twenty20 in Premier League
What happens when Kerala’s largest private sector employer brings a management style to panchayat democracy? More funds, villa housing, a subsidised market, stunning electoral success, and charges of veiled autocracy. Take a look at a unique initiative that is disrupting Kerala’s deeply entrenched politics for good, and bad. Updated: December 20, 2020 7:28:12 pm
Kerala’s largest private sector employer, KITEX registered Twenty20 under the Charitable Societies Act in 2013 as fallout of a longstanding legal battle with the Congress-ruled Kizhakkambalam panchayat.
Kerala’s largest private sector employer, KITEX registered Twenty20 under the Charitable Societies Act in 2013 as fallout of a longstanding legal battle with the Congress-ruled Kizhakkambalam panchayat. In June 2012, the panchayat had refused to renew KITEX’s licence on the ground that it was contaminating water bodies from its dyeing and bleaching
Kizhakkambalam panchayat | Schemes, subsidies keep voters happy: ‘Can’t live on ideology’
The reasons for this astonishing performance are all around in the panchayat, with KITEX not just banking on government funds for schemes but also its own contribution, and CSR funds of other firms filling a crucial financial gap in welfare schemes. Updated: December 20, 2020 5:46:31 pm
Others point out that many contractors too have backtracked from taking up projects in Kizhakkambalam, consequently ensuring that a majority of the works in the panchayat are done by KITEX’s own men.
TWENTY-FIVE km from Kochi, at Kizhakkambalam, a huge model of a yellow mango fruit, with two thin leaves, standing on a podium, greets visitors. For local politicians of all hues, the mango, the poll symbol of