The Hindu : Kerala News : `Kalpathy scheme only after talks with local people'

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Monday, Jan 31, 2005

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`Kalpathy scheme only after talks with local people'

By Our Staff Reporter

PALAKKAD, JAN. 30. The Kalpathy heritage village scheme being implemented by the Department of Tourism will take the local people into confidence while finalising the schemes for the preservation of the historic `agraharams' (Brahmin settlements).

Inaugurating a public awareness meeting at the Mahaganapathy Temple Hall at Kalpathy today, K. Sankaranarayanan, MLA, said that Kalpathy is already a heritage village well-known in the country for its agraharams, carnatic music, temples and holy river.

The new project titled ``Walking tour of Kalpathy'' is aimed at maintaining the old traditional assets without creating problems to its residents. While implementing the new schemes, the existing heritage values should not go.

The local residents will be consulted on every major programme that is being taken up here as part of the `heritage village' scheme, he said.

The municipal councillor P.N. Viswanathan said that the Karyakkar library that was functioning in a building at Chathapuram, which the municipality had converted as a health centre, should be relocated there with more facilities.

There are hundreds of very valuable and rare books that are now dumped in the children's library building.

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