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Sl.No |
Designation |
Name |
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1 |
Chairperson |
Shri. Pinarayi Vijayan Chief Minister & Minister for Environment |
|
2 |
Vice Chairperson
|
Sarada Muraleedharan IAS Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala |
|
3 |
Member, SWAK and Chairman - Technical Committee |
Shri. Mir Mohammed Ali IAS Special Secretary, Environment Department |
|
4 |
Member Secretary |
Shri. Suneel Pamidi IFS Director, Directorate of Environment and Climate Change |
The SWAK consist the following members [G.O.(Ms) No.3/2018/Envt dated 25/6/2018] and [G.O.(Ms) No.05/2021/Envt dated 16/12/2021]
|
1 |
Minister In-charge of the Department of Environment/Forests of the State Government or Minister Incharge of the Department handling wetlands |
Chairperson |
|
2 |
Chief Secretary of the State or Additional Chief Secretary equivalent |
Vice Chairperson |
|
3 |
Secretary in-charge of the Department of Environment |
Member ex-officio |
|
4 |
Secretary in-charge of the Department of Forests |
Member ex-officio |
|
5 |
Secretary in-charge of the Department of Urban Development |
Member ex-officio |
|
6 |
Secretary in-charge of the Department of Rural Development |
Member ex-officio |
|
7 |
Secretary in-charge of the Department of Water Resources |
Member ex-officio |
|
8 |
Secretary in-charge of the Department of Fisheries |
Member ex-officio |
|
9 |
Secretary in-charge of the Department of Irrigation and Flood Control |
Member ex-officio |
|
10 |
Secretary in-charge of the Department of Tourism |
Member ex-officio |
|
11 |
Secretary in-charge of the Department of Revenue |
Member ex-officio |
|
12 |
Director, State Remote Sensing Centre |
Member ex-officio |
|
13 |
Chief Wildlife Warden |
Member ex-officio |
|
14 |
Member Secretary, State Biodiversity Board |
Member ex-officio |
|
15 |
Member Secretary, State Pollution Control Board |
Member ex-officio |
|
16 |
Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests of the Regional Office of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change |
Member ex-officio |
|
17 |
Additional Secretary/Joint Secretary/Director in the Department of Environment/Forests or Department handling wetlands |
Member Secretary |
|
18 |
Dr. A. Bijukumar, Professor, Department of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala. | Expert Member Wetland Ecology |
|
19 |
Dr. E.J James, Former Executive Director, Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) |
Expert Member-Wetland Hydrology |
|
20 |
Dr. Dinesan Cheruvat,Joint Director of Fisheries, Department of Fisheries, Govt. of Kerala | Expert Member- Wetland Fisheries |
|
21 |
Dr. T.V Ramachandra, Coordinator, Energy and Wetland Research Group, Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru |
Expert Member- Landscape planning |
|
22 |
Dr.T.K.A.Nair IAS (Rtd), Chandragiri, VH 61, Vikramapuram Hill, Kuravankonam, Kowdiar 695003,Thiruvananthapuram |
Expert Member- Socioeconomics |
The Technical and Grievance Committee of SWAK
Technical Committee
- Additional Chief Secretary (Environment) - Chairman
- P. S. Harikumar ,CWRDM (Wetland Ecology)
- V. P. Dinesan , CWRDM (Wetland Hydrology)
- Dinesan Cheruvat, Joint Director of Fisheries (Wetland Fisheries)
- T. K. A. Nair IAS (Rtd) (Socio-Economics)
- Executive Director, CWRDM
- Environment Programme Manager, Directorate of Environment & Climate Change – Convener
Grievance Committee
- Secretary in Charge of Department of Law- Ex-officio
- Secretary in Charge of Department of Rural Development- EX-officio
- Secretary in Charge of Department of Revenue-Ex-Officio
- T. K. A. Nair IAS (Rtd) - Expert Member in the field of Socio-Economics
Co-opted Members of SWAK
- K. K. Ramachandran, Scientist - F, NCESS, Thiruvananthapuram
- P. O. Nameer, Head, Chief Wildlife Studies, College of Forestry, Kerala Agri. University, Thrissur
- Kamalakshan Kokkal, Scientist - F, KSCSTE, Thiruvananthapuram
