Let us unite for a Clean Beach in and around Chennai to start with.
Presently Marina Beach is being mechanically cleaned by Bala Industries on a three years contract and they are on their second year of operations. CoC through its Mechanical Department is endeavoring to Float a tender for supply, operation and maintenance of a Beach Cleaning Machine, for the past couple of years and it is continuing.
Marina Beach second largest in the world and biggest beach in Asia measures about 3.2 kms in length with an average width of 500 meters which counts to almost 20,00,000 sq mtrs of sand area of Marina Beach. Marina Beach needs at least 2 machines to clean moderately and 3 machines for a total cleaning, when compared to the operational capacity of the machine related to the extent of the Marina Beach.
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