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The Chief Minister with Water Resources Minister Mathew T Thomas and Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran reviews the progress of the works – (Photo Courtesy – Hindu) The man-made Parvathy-Puthanar canal, created in the 18th and 19th centuries as a water route linking Thiruvananthapuram to Kollam and beyond, has been covered with weeds and debris and become a dirt canal. As per the decision of the cabinet to re-establish the canal to make it navigable, cleaning works are in progress in the canal. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has visited the work site on 5th July 2018 to monitor the progress of ... Read more

The century-old boathouse at the end of the Parvathy Puthanar  at Vallakkadavu in Thiruvananthapuram to feature a biodiversity museum, established by the Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB). Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the museum on June 5 to coincide with the World Environment Day. A major highlight of the museum will be the Science on a Sphere (SOS) spherical projection system, the first-of-its-kind in the State, which has been developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in US.It will provide real-time data of climatic parameters, and will also act as an educational tool that projects their correlation with biodiversity. The ... Read more