Delegation to journey to Sri Lanka to speak, retrieve seized Karaikal boats: Puducherry Speaker

Express News Service

KARAIKAL: Puducherry Assembly Speaker Embalam R Selvam acknowledged {that a} delegation can be fashioned by Puducherry to talk to Sri Lankan authorities and retrieve boats from Karaikal seized by the nation through the years.

The Speaker was in Karaikal to put basis stones for growth works at Karaikal fishing harbour, which might be carried out at a value of Rs 43.4 lakh. Addressing the press, the Speaker mentioned, “The mechanised boats from Karaikal seized and connected by the Sri Lankan authorities are nonetheless in that nation. Without their boats, the livelihoods of our fisherfolk are affected.

The Puducherry authorities will quickly be forming a delegation helmed by Transport Minister S Chandira and me to work out plans and journey to Sri Lanka. We will meet the Sri Lankan authorities and request and retrieve Karaikal’s mechanised boats with the approval of the Indian Government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” Selvam additionally expressed hope that Union Minister of State of Fisheries L Murugan would be a part of him and S Chandira Priyanga throughout their mission to retrieve the seized vessels.

Over the previous a number of years, the Sri Lankan authorities has been seizing and attaching Indian trawlers primarily from Tamil Nadu and Karaikal for allegedly crossing IMBL and fishing in Sri Lankan waters. Puducherry Transport Minister S Chandira Priyanga, Karaikal South MLA AMH Najim, Neravy-TR Pattinam MLA M Nagathiyagarajan, officers from fisheries and PWD division, fisherfolk and panchayat representatives joined the Speaker within the groundbreaking ceremony.

According to the fisheries division, concrete cement flooring can be laid on the platform of the harbour over the subsequent two months at the price of Rs 32.8 lakh. The flooring, which spans about 17,500 sq. ft, will allow the motion and parking of automobiles on the harbour. Similarly, works to take away boulders from the navigation channel of the Arasalar River estuary would happen over the subsequent month at the price of Rs 10.4 lakh.

The boulders, which loosened from the enclosing breakwater constructions into the navigation channel close to the confluence level, has made the departure and return of mechanised boats tough. The removing would ease vessel motion, the officers mentioned. Both works of the fisheries division can be executed via the irrigation and public well being division of the Puducherry PWD.

KARAIKAL: Puducherry Assembly Speaker Embalam R Selvam acknowledged {that a} delegation can be fashioned by Puducherry to talk to Sri Lankan authorities and retrieve boats from Karaikal seized by the nation through the years.

The Speaker was in Karaikal to put basis stones for growth works at Karaikal fishing harbour, which might be carried out at a value of Rs 43.4 lakh. Addressing the press, the Speaker mentioned, “The mechanised boats from Karaikal seized and connected by the Sri Lankan authorities are nonetheless in that nation. Without their boats, the livelihoods of our fisherfolk are affected.

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The Puducherry authorities will quickly be forming a delegation helmed by Transport Minister S Chandira and me to work out plans and journey to Sri Lanka. We will meet the Sri Lankan authorities and request and retrieve Karaikal’s mechanised boats with the approval of the Indian Government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” Selvam additionally expressed hope that Union Minister of State of Fisheries L Murugan would be a part of him and S Chandira Priyanga throughout their mission to retrieve the seized vessels.

Over the previous a number of years, the Sri Lankan authorities has been seizing and attaching Indian trawlers primarily from Tamil Nadu and Karaikal for allegedly crossing IMBL and fishing in Sri Lankan waters. Puducherry Transport Minister S Chandira Priyanga, Karaikal South MLA AMH Najim, Neravy-TR Pattinam MLA M Nagathiyagarajan, officers from fisheries and PWD division, fisherfolk and panchayat representatives joined the Speaker within the groundbreaking ceremony.

According to the fisheries division, concrete cement flooring can be laid on the platform of the harbour over the subsequent two months at the price of Rs 32.8 lakh. The flooring, which spans about 17,500 sq. ft, will allow the motion and parking of automobiles on the harbour. Similarly, works to take away boulders from the navigation channel of the Arasalar River estuary would happen over the subsequent month at the price of Rs 10.4 lakh.

The boulders, which loosened from the enclosing breakwater constructions into the navigation channel close to the confluence level, has made the departure and return of mechanised boats tough. The removing would ease vessel motion, the officers mentioned. Both works of the fisheries division can be executed via the irrigation and public well being division of the Puducherry PWD.