FEATURE ARTICLE
Master Plan to leap ahead
The draft‘ Master Plan’ for Thiruvananthapuram city stresses on various development activities to be carried out over the coming 20 years.
V Viswanath
Thiruvananthapuram has been marching ahead to a higher position among cities with a wide range of projects in the last decade. Thiruvananthapuram being the capital city; setting up of one of Asia’ s largest IT hubs Technopark; completion of Thiruvananthapuram international airport; envisaged international deep-sea container transshipment terminal at Vizhinjam; increased tourists to the international beach destination Kovalam; the revelation of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple being one of the richest temples in the world – all these have propelled the city to the centre of attention nationally and internationally. This in turn is accompanied by increased inflow of people in to the city. The
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
July 2013
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