{"id":9567,"date":"2013-04-17T10:28:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2013-04-17T10:28:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:58:54","slug":"kovalam-samudra-beach-to-undergo-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kovalam-samudra-beach-to-undergo-renovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kovalam Samudra Beach to undergo renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala State Tourism Department and Trivandrum City Corporation have joined hands to renovate the <strong>Kovalam Samudra Beach Park<\/strong>. The Samudra beach park was completed in 2006 by the State tourism department for the local tourists who come to beach to spend the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Vizhinjam Panchayat and Tourism department was in-charge of the park; however KSEB disconnected the electric supply to the park when authorities refused to pay the bill. The park which was a place for hosting cultural events was thus abandoned. The funds for the renovation project have been raised from the Kovalam Basic Infrastructure fund.<\/p>\n<h3>Also Read:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Distant Dream called \u2018Vizhinjam\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/the-distant-dream-called-vizhinjam\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Distant Dream called \u2018Vizhinjam\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Samudra Beach Park will have more shopping centres, toilets and other basic facilities. The project will be carried out by District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) and SIDCO. Electricity and other facilities will be provided by Trivandrum City Corporation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala State Tourism Department and Trivandrum City Corporation have joined hands to renovate the Kovalam Samudra Beach Park. The Samudra beach park was completed in 2006 by the State tourism department for the local tourists who come to beach to spend the evening. Vizhinjam Panchayat and Tourism department was in-charge of the park; however KSEB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[88,452],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-kovalam","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}