07.12.2010
I am now at NTPC Kayamkulam Project to conduct a workshop on “Communication Skills” for their Executives. The guest house is a massive building with green lawns and pleasant landscaping.
Kerala is in a different time zone. Time simply slows down here! Believe me. We can squeeze out every morsel of existential bliss in this indefatigable state where the people have merged their life with nature through wisdom and contentment.
The entire Kayamkulam Project is next to the backwaters. Because it is a Naptha plant with a Combined Gas cycle and Steam Cycle, it produces less heat emission. So the place doesn’t have the desolated look of the environs of a coal burning power project. But this is a small plant producing just 350 MW of power out of the total 30000 MW produced by NTPC in all. So, the natural ecosystems are not disturbed at all. The Kayamkulam Kayal or Lagoon is just adjacent to the plant with the Arabian Sea beyond in the West. The road to the plant winds by the side of the Lagoon. Every where we can see a variety of water fowl sitting on the green bushes and shrubs and the submerged trees. It’s a veritable Bird Sanctuary! There were Cormorants, storks, heron and other fish eaters. They circle the water and suddenly swoop down greacefully to catch their prey. The way they land on the ground with their wings spread out and forward to control their descent is ever interesting sight.
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