Central Government should revise the criteria for determining the compensation for States affected by natural disasters. The centre has to adopt a scientific approach to disaster management and ensure timely assistance to States to help them tide over the impact of natural calamities.

 Growth rate in the IT sector in Kerala has been higher than that of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The State was heading for the higher growth rate because of the infrastructure created by the present government.

 Nature should not be exploited for tourism development. Commitment to nature comes first. Without nature, there is no tourism.

 Kerala is vigilant against the threats posed by extremism. Due to the humane social welfare measures and constant vigilance exercised by the State Police, Kerala has not been greatly affected by this problem.

 Do not implement the Kirit Parikh report on decontrol of the pricing mechanism for petroleum products, as it will further fuel inflation. The cost of transportation will go up imposing a crippling burden on a consumer State like Kerala.

 Government will deal sternly with those who encroached upon government land in the Munnar hill station apart from initiating stringent action against officials who clandestinely supported the encroachers

 Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN will throw Kerala back to the days when the entire farm economy was in crisis causing farmer suicides. It will undo the stability brought to the sector by the LDF Government.

 Negative list of 489 items under ASEAN F.T.A cited by Union Commerce Minister does not have the nod of signatories. That does not make the acclaimed list a genuine fact.

 Central Government should reconsider its stand on nationwide distribution of genetically modified seeds. A moratorium on their use for fifty years has to be declared so to evaluate their harmful effects.

 India has forfeited its sovereign rights to control imports by signing FTA with ASEAN countries. The Central Government signed the agreement without proper democratic consultations.

 The Central Finance Minister could have announced a relaxation in the rigid norms fixed for centrally sponsored programmes since they were not at all suited to the ground realities of States such as Kerala. There was no proposal to rehabilitate several thousands of Keralites coming back to the State from abroad losing their jobs due to recession.

 Why should we drag the private insurance companies that have collapsed in America and other capitalist countries into our country? This is tantamount to inviting the economic slowdown in the West into the country and bartering away the country’s indigenous wealth.

 Munnar Mission that could recover 16,000 acres of Government land encroached upon by bigwigs is an achievement the country could be proud of. People have realised what the State Government has done was not attempted by any Government in the last fifty years.

 The State Government will continue to support the use and distribution of free software. A centre of excellence for coordinating activities in the free software sector will be established.

 Media should cooperate to give sufficient publicity to development activities and to promote people’s interest in development. Media persons have to perform this duty of educating the people. The profession of journalism requires the greatest social commitment.

 The Question why India cannot sign a nuclear deal with America when China has already done has no meaning because China had been acknowledged as a nuclear power by the U.S.

 While the centre is aggravating market fluctuations through its flawed farm and retail market policies, the State Government is trying its best to hold the price line under control through effective market intervention.

 There is a group, however small, in the civil service community, who do not live up to society’s expectations of them. Corruption, inordinate delays and red tape have to be remedied. Even with computerization service to the public are being delayed.

 There have been a series of judgments undermining the rights of the working class and in favour of the property owners and capitalists. The judiciary have been increasingly framing its judgments to uphold the free market principle and policies of privatization.

 The Centre has been abandoning the policy of supporting public distribution systems in States. Monopolies such as Reliance were allowed to procure rice and wheat and store them in FCI godowns

 The Center should not deliver another deadly blow to Kerala farmers by permitting multinational corporations to introduce genetically modified seeds in our farm sector. Such seeds are proven to cause diseases in human beings and degrade environment.

 The latest recommendations of the Planning Commission to the Union Government to entirely open up banking, insurance, health, education and retail sectors to foreign and Indian Private Capital show how imperialist globalization forces are tightening their noose on the country. Professional education in the country is already in a dirty state. In fact the need at this moment is a strong Central legislation to check profiteering in the education sector.

 The endless waiting and consistent pressure of the State on the Centre for the Kannur airport have at last borne fruit when the centre’s approval for a greenfield airport there was given. The State Government has already begun taking steps to acquire 2000 acres of land for the purpose at Moorkhan parambu in Kannur

 Scarcity of edible oils being experienced in the country is not because of natural reasons but engineered by policy interventions of the Central Government.

 Delay in the visit of the central team to assess agricultural damages caused by very heavy summer rains is due to the misleading of Prime minister and Agriculture Minister by the opposition in the state with the lie that damage was not due to rain, but by scarcity of labourers and the interference of labour union offices

 Don’t push coconut farmers into debt-trap : CM: A ban on the export of coconut oil along with reduction in duty on imports of other edible oils is a grave injustice. There is no shortage of coconut oil in the State. The exports are mainly for overseas Keralites. Hence the decision will cause difficulties to them and hit the coconut oil market. Thus, while the Centre is trumpeting the farm-loan waiver, it is actually pushing farmers into debt trap through its liberalisation policies.

 Shri. V.S. Achuthanandan as Chief Minister, after wide-ranging consultation with political parties within the Government and in the opposition took the momentous peace initiative of calling an all party peace committee meeting under his aegis on 15th March, 2008, at Kannur.

 A metro rail system for the emerging megalopolis of Kochi becomes a reality. The State Cabinet has given approval for implementing the Kochi metro rail project by the Delhi Metro Company in joint sector with the Centre. The stake of the state government in the Rs. 3000 crore project will be Rs. 450 crores viz, 15 per cent. A company under the name Kochi Metro Rail Corporation will be registered for the purpose.

 Invasion of the culture of globalization has reduced connoisseurs of art into its mere customers.

 Colonialisation is hanging above India now in the form of the nuclear deal. The Congress Government is now demolishing the anti-coloniasation campaigns led by the great leaders such as Bhagat Sing and Gandhiji.