Earth mover to be deployed for tidying up Fort Kochi beachfront
The Hindu
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With public ire mounting against the Kochi Corporation, Kerala Tourism, Ernakulam District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC), and Fort Kochi Heritage Conservation Society for heaps of garbage on the Fort Kochi beach, tourism stakeholders have envisaged deploying an earth mover there to frequently clean what was once the prime beach in central Kerala.
This comes in the wake of the assessment that the 22 cleaning personnel deployed by the Ernakulam District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) and other agencies to tidy the beach and the walkway are inadequate. Permanent deployment of an earth mover on the beach will entail a monthly expense of around ₹1.50 lakh, at an average rent of ₹5,000 a day, tourism sources said.
“It would be tough for the cash-strapped DTPC and the Heritage Conservation Society to raise this amount, since both are autonomous bodies which function with little government support. We could deploy an earth mover twice or thrice a week, if it becomes tough to mobilise ₹1.50 lakh per month,” they added.