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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Staff Reporter

₹12.71 crore for construction of breakwater at Ottamassery

The State government has accorded administrative sanction for the construction of a breakwater at Ottamassery, near Cherthala.

In a statement issued here recently, Agriculture Minister P. Prasad said the breakwater would be constructed at a cost of ₹ 12.71 crore under the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board. Mr. Prasad said the government had also sanctioned ₹78.34 crore for coastal protection in other parts of the district.

The breakwater, with a length of 950 metres, will be constructed between CP stones 921 and 926. The tendering process would begin soon.

A sum of ₹75 lakh has been allocated for the construction of a seawall between CP stones 922 and 929 on an emergency basis. The constructions will be carried out by the Kerala Irrigation Infrastructure Development Corporation and the Major Irrigation Department.

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