Alappuzha: Twelve-kilometre-long Kuttamperoor River revived under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme recently making national headlines is likely to get German aid.
Impressed by efforts of the local body which had spent Rs 72 lakh with 30,000 man days in reviving the river, representatives of Senwatec, a German water dredging company, visited the river on Thursday.
It was in March last the river, a tributary of Pampa and Achankovil rivers, got a rebirth. The river, which was once a lifeline of hundreds of families of the panchayat, was in a dead state for years after people turned it into a dump.
P. Viswambhara Panicker, president, Budhanoor panchayat said that two technical advisors, Raier Scheer and Bernhard Fritsch, had arrived here Thursday morning.
A detailed project report prepared by the panchayat administration on deepening and widening of the river was handed over to the officials. "They told us they would conduct a meeting with water resources minister Mathew T. Thomas and discuss the future course of action’," he said.
The dredging giant came to know about the tale of the river through Shanbu Surendran, a native who works with an alliance company. ‘We’ve discussed conservation of its banks with concrete pitching and plinths on the either sides," he said.
