A preparatory phase visit to Vailankanni festival was made by Mr.V.Ganapathy, Liaison Officer – ExNoRa International and K.Mohanasundaram, Programme Officer on August 26th as was decided at the planning meeting held at ExNoRa International Head Quarters, Chennai on 24th August, about ExNoRa’s intervention during the annual festival 2011. The prior knowledge of the senior officials of Mr.V.Ganapathy as the Retd.Special Correspondent of THE HINDU was helpful in the meetings held with various officials.

Mr.Munisamy, I.A.S, Nagai District Collector was appraised over phone of the role of ExNoRa during the current festival namely support to the Town Panchayat , Health Department and others with special reference to data collection of the actual number of visitors to the festival so that it will be useful for preparation of the CSP. The Collector appreciated the move and hoped ExNoRa team will be there during the festival.

Met Mr.Raghunathan, Executive Engineer - TWAD board (Operation and Maintenance) who said that normally Vailankanni was supplied 7 lakh litres of water daily and during festival 3.5 lakhs of additional supply daily. This was based on a TWAD board norm of 10 litres per head during festivals of similar nature in different parts of the State. This was in addition to about 20,000 litres supplied normally daily to the Church which went up to about 60,000 litres during the festival.

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