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Pettimudy Tragedy: No death certificates yet for the missing | Kochi News

Shanmughanathan, a Munnar resident, lost two sons in the landslide. The body of one son has not yet been recovered IDUKKI: Even as the Pettimudy landslide, which claimed 66 lives, turns one year old on August 6, the kin of the four missing people are yet to receive their death certificates. The four persons are missing and were included in the list of dead people. But the government has not yet issued a civil death order and the compensation is pending. Despite several appeals, the relatives have not received the death certificates from the concerned authorities. The major landslide at Pettimudy under Kannan Devan Hills Plantation (KDHP) in Munnar on last August 6 claimed the lives of 70 members of worker families living in three estate layams (cluster of workers’ quarters). A month-long rescue operation could not trace the bodies of Dineshkumar, 22, Kasthuri, 26, Priyadarshini, 7, and Karthika, 21.

Strawberry farmers facing COVID-19 slump

Many took to cultivating the fruit after promises of procurement The farmers of strawberry in Kanthallur and Vattavada have lost their entire crops of two consecutive seasons in the wake of the SARS-CoV-2 wave. Promoted by VFCPK (Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council, Kerala), many farmers turned to strawberry cultivation after a steady growth was seen in agri-based tourism in the two cool-season vegetable cultivating villages close to Munnar. Unlike other fruits, the shelf life of strawberry is one or two days. The farmers used to sell the fruits to the tourists reaching the farms and they got good prices for it.