The water theme park was inaugurated by CPI (M) party state Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan (File photo)
A water theme and amusement park, the first such cooperative venture run by Kerala's ruling CPI (M), has been opened at the picturesque temple town of Parassinikadavu in Kannur on Sunday (August 31).
In his inaugural address, party state Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said that the setting up of the Rs 30 crore "Vismaya" Amusement Park, spread over 30 acres of land, indicated the growing influence of "cooperative movement" in Kerala. Kannur district occupies a prime place in the state having maximum number of cooperative units.
Chief Minister V S Achuthanadan, who was scheduled to have inaugurated the park, could not make it due to indisposition. Opposing the "misinformation" campaign by certain quarters that setting up of the park would lead to depletion of ground water reserves in the area and result in ecological degradation, Vijayan said such "deliberate attempts" were aimed at misleading the public. In fact, the entire water requirement for the park is to be drawn from a rain water harvesting tank with capacity of 500 lakh litres, he said.
"The park is not going to use ground water and those who spearheaded the "misinformation campaign" should realise their mistakes," Vijayan said. This sort of campaigns would create false apprehensions among the people and have a "negative" approach on developmental issues, he said. The project is managed by CPI-M controlled Malabar Tourism Development Cooperative Society Ltd (MTDC).
The inaugural function was attended by Home and Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Health Minister P K Sreemathi, local MPs P Karunakaran, A P Abdulla Kutty, local MLAs M Prakashan, P Jayarajan, Ramachandran Kadannappaly and K K Shylaja.
The newly formed Malabar Pleasures (India) Pvt Ltd would be responsible for running the park, MTDC Chairman and District Panchayat President K K Narayanan said. The park, said to have been modelled as per international standards, has a musical fountain and children's park, among other facilities. (PTI)
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