Kollam: The garbage littered sandy stretches of kollam beaches would be a thing of the past once this amazing beach cleaning machine hits its shores in a couple of months. The Civic body has set aside a budget of Rs.20 lakh to import a beach cleaning machine as part of its beach beautification programme to complement the fabled tourist destination of Ashtamudi Lake. Kollam beach will be the first in Kerala to have a beach cleaning machine. Marina beach in Chennai is currently using an imported beach cleaning machine.
Beach cleaning machines can move along the beach easily and is built with a dual action mode for digging and sifting, which would help to dry and aerate the soil. It has a multi-gauged mesh, which filters out the rubbish on the beach on to special containers, which can later be emptied. It would be a boon in keeping the beach clean, which is being visited by hundreds of foreign tourists and local populace. The gadget is expected to start functioning in June.
Plans are also on the anvil to revive the botanical garden located at the eastern side of the beach by planting tress and plants apart from setting up a lawn. The water sports complex and aquarium would be the other major attractions in this scheme. The sprucing up of the botanical garden and the Mahatma Gandhi Park of Kollam beach will be on a BOT basis and tenders would be soon floated in this regard.
