'Pvt players should join withgovtfor infrastructure devlpt'

: Private players and voluntary organisations should join hands with government's initiatives to ensure development of socially relevant and environmentally significant infrastructure development, PWD Minister A Namassivayam said here today.
He stated this while dedicating a desilted and deepened pond under a project of the Pondicherry Heritage Round Table 167 (PHRT 167) in Lourdes Nagarin Villianoor commune Panchayat limits near here today.
Lauding the work done by PHRT 167 in collaboration with Madras Anchorage Round Table said voluntary organisations and private players could play their part in tandem with the government machinery to develop infrastructure.
"Youth have the potential to bring about a makeover in environment and also in socially important projects as government alone cannot deliver the goods, what with various restraints", he said.

Stating that desilting of water bodies is an essential work, he said government had drawn up a Rs 2.5 crore project to desilt and deepen around 30 ponds and tanks in Puducherry to ensure speedy harvesting of rain water and also recharging of the depleting underground water table.
Chairman of PHRT 167 N Venkataramani said the project was among their important programmes and the desilted pond would be a good source for rechargingsub soil water.