Safety audit: Boat services to Papikonda Hills halted for a week

The week-long suspension of tourism vessel operations connected the Godavari stream routes from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to the Papikonda Hills commenced connected Sunday.

The determination follows aft an incidental that took spot connected June 12, wherein 89 tourists aboard a backstage vessel were stranded successful the stream adjacent Devipatnam successful Polavaram district, owed to a method glitch.

Tourism Department Kakinada Divisional manager M. Ch. Pawan Kumar told The Hindu: “As galore arsenic 34 tourism boats person suspended operations for the information audit. Of these 15 boats run from Posammagandi point, and 19 boats run from Pochavaram, wherever boats from Bhadrachalam successful Telangana participate the Papikonda Hills.” The Department of Tourism officially operates lone 1 boat.

Rampachodavaram Revenue Divisional Officer K. Swathi said that the information audit of each authorities and backstage boats would statesman connected Monday and proceed for a week. “The past information audit of the boats operating successful the Papikonda Hills was done a twelvemonth ago,” said Ms. Swathi.

The Departments of Tourism, Revenue, Police, Forest and Water Resources volition jointly behaviour the information audit.