Thiruvananthapuram, Wednesday, July 28, 2010: Keralal State minister for Water Resources N.K. Premachandran today informed the Assembly that the work on a waste treatment plant at Sabarimala would begin this festival season itself. Minister said during question hour that the Rs.29-crore project would come up before the next meeting of the Cabinet for administrative sanction.

Minister for Devaswom Kadannapally Ramachandran informed the House that the government was awaiting the report of a survey for the construction of a ropeway at Sabarimala.

Answering a question raised by Aisha Potti, he said the ropeway would begin at the Pamba Hilltop and end before the police mess at the Sannidhanam. He said Rs.3 crore had been sanctioned for the renovation of temples under the Malabar Devaswom.
(News Agency)