P. Sreeramakrishnan
He served as the resident Vice-Chairman of Norka-Roots and as a member of the 13th Kerala Legislative Assembly beginning 1 June 2011.
[2] As Speaker, Sreeramakrishnan convened the Festival on Democracy and orchestrated the Ponnani Model of flood relief and rehabilitation,[3] which has been recognized by the UN Forum for its public participation and use of technology.
He launched the Loka Kerala Sabha, a platform for Global Keralites to participate in matters of the state.
Sreeramakrishnan has traveled to countries including Nepal, Sri Lanka, Laos, China, North Korea, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, South Africa, U.K, and Kenya.
After obtaining a BEd degree, Sreeramakrishnan worked as a teacher at the Melattur Ravivarma Mooppil Eradi Higher Secondary School before entering politics.
[citation needed] Sreeramakrishnan became politically active at age twelve as Secretary of the High School unit of the Students' Federation.
He went from Chairman of the Calicut University Union to District President of the SFI Palakkad Committee, later becoming a youth leader in DYFI, and eventually a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
After progressing to become State secretary, Sreeramakrishnan was elected as the All India President of DYFI in 2007 in the national meeting held at Chennai and continued in the post till 2012.
In 2011, he contested from the Ponnani constituency, winning with a majority of 4,101 votes and becoming a member of the Thirteenth Kerala Legislative Assembly.
It was noted that the BJP's lone member in the Kerala Legislative Assembly, Shri O Rajagopal, voted in favor of Sreeramakrishnan.
Janadhipathyam Samskaram Samakaleena Lokam includes articles that analyse the image of contemporary Kerala.
The book also touches on topics such as how the new democratic has changed the face of Kerala, NRI and Adivasi welfare, discrimination suffered by lower castes, and the new outlook observed by citizens today.
As the Speaker of the 14th Kerala Legislative, Sreeramakrishnan enacted reforms that included rendering the Legislative Assembly premises a model in bio-diverse ecosystems, declaration of green protocol, setting up a plantain grove with a collection of more than 30 endemic varieties, and setting up a bio-waste treatment plant.
The first National Conference under "Festival on Democracy", a 'National Legislators' Conference on the Challenges in the Empowerment of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Independent India saw the active participation of elected representatives from several State Legislatures of India, with massive participation from members belonging to SC, ST and backward classes.
The three-day NSP Kerala – 2019 was attended by several national leaders, cutting across political and cultural lines.
Sreeramakrishnan had participated as a key dignitary at the preceding 'Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad' i.e. Indian Students Parliament which was Founded by Shri Rahul V. Karad –Vice President- MAEER's MIT, Pune in 2011.
The event is hosted in cooperation with the Government of Kerala, to bring all Keralites living in various parts of the world under one platform with a representative nature, to invoke their collective conscience and harness and share their achievements and progress to the benefit and welfare of the State.
The non-resident members are selected from abroad and other states/UTs within India, taking into account the diversities of gender, age and occupational status.
They also include eminent non-resident Keralites who have contributed immensely in their respective fields of engagement to achieve public acclaim.
The Ponnani model flood relief work gained international acclaim and was listed as a topic of discussion at a key United Nations Forum.
The Ponnani Legislative Assembly, led by Sreeramakrishnan, developed a mechanism to calculate the intensity of damages caused.
A geographic Information System (GIS) Drone Field Survey was carried out in Ponnani from 23 to 30 August 2018 under the guidance of Sreeramakrishnan.
The amount was equally met by Ponnani Municipality and Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative of Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society (ULCCS), based in Kozhikode.
Alhambricks Knowledge Endowment carried out the interpretation, data mining, indexing and other socio-scientific enhancement free of cost.
The post daum hosting development- interpretation of the data, mobilising resources and devising distribution mechanism was done by Infosys.
By using drones synchronised with satellite images to ascertain the route of the flood, false claims on loss of property as well as livestock were weeded out.
All the relief material distributed were marked with QR codes, to ensure that they were delivered to the right houses and people.
Subsequently, the controversial move to demolish the church was halted and a decision was made to renovate the building under the Missouri Heritage project.
During his tenure as President of DYFI, he called for an uncompromising stand against the imperialistic forces that had created a host of crises like unemployment and spiralling prices due to the wrong economic policies pursued by the UPA government at the centre in 2007.
