Events in the year 2002 in Kerala.
Incumbents
Governors of Kerala
Sukhdev Singh Kang (till April) Sikander Bakht (since April)
Chief minister of Kerala – A. K. Antony
Events
6 February - Government employees and teachers in Kerala started indefinite strike. 2 March - Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers kills two Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers in Meloor, Kannur district. 22 April - Group of villagers and Adivasis starts Plachimada Coca-Cola struggle. 27 June - A person named Sankaranarayanan allegedly killed Ahmed Koya who raped and murdered his daughter an year ago in Manjeri. 27 July - Kumarakom boat disaster; State Water Transport Department boat accident near Kumarakom kills 29 passengers. 1 October - Kerala State Road Transport Corporation launches Volvo B7R buses in Thiruvananthapuram - Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram - Palakkad routes and becomes the third government transport company in India to achieve this feat. 18 November - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam inaugurates Akshaya project a Computer literacy and governance through ICT project of Government of Kerala.
Date not known
Kerala introduces three new RTO codes namely KL-16, KL-17 and KL-18 at Attingal, Muvattupuzha and Vatakara.
Births Anaswara Rajan - September 8 Mathew Thomas - October 16
Deaths
January 2 - Geetha Hiranyan, 43, poet. January 6 - Kunjandi, 82, actor. June 19 - N. F. Varghese, 53, actor. July 1 - Saswathikananda, 52, head of Sivagiri mutt. September 24 - P. R. Pisharoty, physicist, 93. December 23 - Ratheesh, 48, actor.
See also
History of Kerala 2002 in India
References