Residents seek restoration of Olaikuda children’s park

 Residents of Rameswaram question involution of the territory medication to reconstruct the Olaikuda children’s parkland located adjacent Sangumal beach.  

The parkland that came implicit the land which erstwhile housed the makeshift huts of fishermen successful astir 2000’s could not clasp its worth for a longer play owing to ill-maintenance by the section bodies.

N. Jeyakanthan, a resident, said erstwhile the program for a parkland was initially proposed, it faced a stiff absorption from the residents and organisations. 

Despite the opposition, the territory medication decided to rise a children’s parkland to pull tourists who sojourn the celebrated Sri Ramanathaswamy Temple and Agnitheertham from assorted parts of the country.  

“Though the section consumers’ extortion forum was initially successful complaint of maintaining the park, implicit the years, it gradually moved to the hands of section administration. They did a beauteous bully job, but slackness successful obtaining funds, transportation of officials, among others led to the existent authorities of the park,” helium added.  

Another nonmigratory Thillai Bakiam said the Sangumal formation was precise celebrated for it being utilized for processing conch shells which would travel arsenic a drawback for the fishermen.  

As the country was wide utilized by the fishermen, they excessively contributed their spot to beatify the parkland by planting saplings and watering them, helium noted.  

But, arsenic it did not proceed for long, determination was nary 1 to support the park. Like immoderate different ill-maintained nationalist space, the desolate abstraction has go a refuge for anti-social activities, helium worried.  

C.R. Senthilvel of Tamil Nadu AITUC Fishermen Workers Union, said the nationalist abstraction could lone beryllium retrieved lone if capable money was allocated and attraction enactment was carried out.  

“The obsolete instrumentality successful the parkland could not beryllium utilized without replacement. Or else, a non-governmental organisation could beryllium roped successful to support it,” helium suggested.  

Rameswaram municipality officials said erstwhile the funds were sanctioned, they would transportation retired the attraction works, and it would beryllium retrieved.