New Delhi, March 31 -- A climate-risk insurance mechanism and a green fee on urban development projects to fund disaster mitigation and emergency response systems in the state, developing Thrissur-Cochin as FinTech hub and Thiruvananthapuram-Kollam as the knowledge corridor, are some of the key recommendations made by the Kerala urban policy commission (KUPC) in its report submitted to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday.

KUPC, which is the first state level urban commission in India, submitted its final recommendations containing evidence-based reports from 10 policy pillars. Kerala is now the only Indian state to have an urban policy.

With the rate of urbanisation in Kerala higher than the national average, KUPC was constituted ...