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Land for Coast Guard station released

By Our Special Correspondent

KOZHIKODE OCT. 21. The Government has released land for a Coast Guard station at Beypore.

K.K. Vijaya Kumar, Government Secretary in charge of Marad rehabilitation, told presspersons here today that two acres of land with a building had been earmarked for the station. The Fisheries Department had been given the powers to hand it over to the Coast Guard as soon as it came forward to establish the station. It is one of the security facilities envisaged for Marad. The other is a police station in Marad.

Meanwhile, Government agencies began initiatives for implementing the Marad development package. Officials began finalising the modalities for implementing the development projects at a meeting convened in Marad by Mr. Vijaya Kumar. Senior officials of various departments, including the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and the Kerala Water Authority, were among those present.

Under the development programme, there would be more public water taps, more roads and by-lanes and more streetlights on the beach and roads in its neighbourhood. The KSEB has already prepared a scheme to provide more streetlights in the communally sensitive region and started restoring power supply to 34 houses in Marad.

To attend to the health needs of the local people, a series of free medical camps are being arranged in Marad. The first would be on October 26. It would be followed by two medical check-up camps each in November and December.

Mr. Vijaya Kumar said minor modifications had been made in the Marad development package prepared by the district administration. Cabinet approval for the package is expected shortly.

Meanwhile, the Government-sponsored rehabilitation programme continued today with 11 more families returning to their homes. Three families came from the relief camp at Chaliyam, four from the Kappakkal camp, one from the temporary camp at Payyanakkal Government school and others from the houses of their relatives.

Now nine families staying at the Payyanakkal school, five families in the Kappakkal camp and three families in Chaliyam remain to be rehabilitated.

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