Tourism hub envisaged along Kadambrayar-Edachira stretch
The Hindu
Thrikkakara Municipality joins hands with DTPC; pollution of river a challenge
A mini tourism hub has been envisaged alongside Kadambrayar ecotourism village-Edachira stretch to provide a sprawling waterfront locale for IT professionals and others in the locality to unwind. The Thrikkakara Municipality has joined hands with the Ernakulam District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) to carve out the tourism hub. The project got an impetus after a team led by the Chairperson of Thrikkakara Municipality, Ajitha Thankappan, inspected the weed and water hyacinth-infested waterbody. The Kadambrayar river and the Edachira canal offer immense potential for boating and other recreational activities. Boats and a restaurant that were operated by DTPC are now idling due to the pandemic situation and the expiry of the 10-year contract period with a private firm.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.