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Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 7 The Kerala Government has decided to constitute a high-level committee to formulate new tourism projects covering dams, reservoirs and hydro-electric stations as also to coordinate the functioning of the existing projects.

The Additional Secretary in charge of the Water Resources Department, Mr K. Jayakumar, and the Tourism Secretary, Mr D.V. Venu, will be the committees Chairman and Convener, respectively, of the committee, while the Chairman of the Kerala State Electricity Board, Tourism Director and the secretaries of related departments will be the members.

The Minister for Tourism, Mr Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, said after a meeting of top officials of the Water Resources, Electricity and Irrigation departments here that the dams and the areas in their vicinity were already attracting tourists and the Government had drawn up several projects to convert these places into tourism destinations.

These projects focus mainly on improving the basic infrastructure in these areas. But the implementation of the projects can succeed only through the coordination of Tourism, Electricity and Irrigation departments.

To achieve this, each destination would have a set-up at the official level, the Minister said.

He made it clear that the projects would be implemented only after ensuring the safety of the dams and its ecological preservation.

The meeting decided to hand over unused quarters in the possession of Water Resources and Electricity departments in the project areas to the Tourism Department.

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