Rs 87.96 cr for Kodai lake beautification
Infrastructure work for Mahamaham festival okayed
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-08-28 05:31 GMT
Chennai: After announcing a series of welfare measures and civic amenities for Coimbatore and Tirunelveli districts, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday announced a major beautification project for the polluted Kodaikanal lake at an estimated cost of Rs 87.96 crore. A press release from the secretariat said that the state had executed several projects in Kodaikanal and now 132 civic workers had been requisitioned to improve its tourist spots. The municipality had spent Rs27.31 crore to improve civic infrastructure in the last three years. Now, the beautification project had been devised in light of the growing tourist inflow and for safe drinking water.
The multi-crore scheme envisaged the lake’s beautification to attract tourists. Desilting, removal of water hyacinth, channelising of the storm water drains and solid waste management were measures that would be implemented, Ms Jayalalithaa said. To benefit tourists, parking lots, renovated rental cycle terminals, boat houses and information centres would be spruced up.
The release also added that in view of the upcoming Mahamaham festival at the temple town of Kumbakonam, development work, with an emphasis on infrastructure, was also on the cards. The Rs 43 crore project would execute a solid waste management plan at a cost of Rs11.17 crore and drinking water works to an estimate of Rs 2.44 crore.
Karur too would have two subways constructed at a cost of '3.69 crore each on the Kulathupalayam-Erode-Karur and Karur-Tiruchy-Dindigul railroad sections through the Southern Railway.
The approach roads to the subways in Karur will be laid at a total cost of '5.82 crore, with the new bridges helping ease traffic congestion in that locality, the statement from the secretariat added.