Resentment is brewing among environmentalists and disaster management experts in Kerala as the ruling and Opposition parties are pushing for further relaxation in Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) despite the back-to-back calamities that the state has witnessed. Enough relaxations have been made in ESAs, and hence, further relaxations could be termed only as disastrous, and
Successive floods and landslides have hit the state since 2018. A expert committee had in 2012 recommended that the state declare districts in the Western Ghats ecologically sensitive