Take action on encroachments and curb usage of banned plastic items: Kanniyakumari Collector

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Kanniyakumari District Collector M. Prathap directed the officials to fortify sanitation measures astatine tourer spots, wide encroachments and found a checkpost to curb the usage of banned integrative items being brought into the town.

The Collector inspected respective locations crossed the territory and aboriginal chaired a reappraisal gathering astatine Kanniyakumari municipality office.

He noted that Kanniyakumari has been witnessing dependable influx of some home and planetary tourists. Stressing the value of maintaining the municipality with implicit hygiene, helium instructed the officials to instal further trash cans to forestall indiscriminate disposal of garbage by visitors. He told the civic assemblage officials to deploy sanitation workers peculiarly for tourer spots successful the town.

Mr. Prathap further directed the municipal and constabulary officials to wide encroachments and streamline pedestrian pathways successful the town. He besides instructed officials to instal a information obstruction astatine Triveni Sangamam to forestall tourists and visitors from venturing into deeper waters.

The Collector directed the situation section officials to found a checkpost to forestall integrative items being brought successful the district. The officials were instructed to inspect the conveyance and prehend banned integrative materials astatine the checkpost, and to instrumentality the strategy wrong 2 weeks.

The nutrient information section officials were instructed to inspect the restaurants and guarantee that eligible establishments get indispensable certifications. Municipal officials were directed to earmark abstracted abstraction for roadside eateries.

The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department (HR&CE) was instructed to evict shops that hindered entree to Poompuhar Shipping Corporation Limited’s ferry service.

The constabulary officials were instructed to support 24x7 surveillance and monitoring astatine large tourer congregation points successful Kanniyakumari and guarantee the information and information of visitors.

District Tourism Officer Kamaraj, Kanniyakumari Municipality Commissioner Pattusamy, District Environmental Officer Nellai Mani and officials from respective different departments were contiguous astatine the meeting.

Published - June 04, 2026 06:42 p.m. IST

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