India's Kerala state will proceed 'no matter what' with a $900 million port project and is open to deploying federal police if needed to protect it from protesters blocking construction, a government minister told Reuters on Saturday.
causes coastal erosion that has undermined their livelihoods, calling for a complete halt on the construction.
Although the protesters have refused to budge, Kerala's minister of ports, Ahammed Devarkovil, said the government of the southern state was hopeful of resolving the deadlock but there was no chance it would halt construction. Asked for comment on Devarkovil's remarks, a protest leader, Fredy Solomon, said protests would continue as "houses and livelihoods of thousands of fishermen are at stake."
Minister Devarkovil said Kerala remains open to the idea of deploying the federal Central Reserve Police Force.
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