Summary:
more-inThe high-level meeting convened by the State government to streamline the roll-on roll-off (ro-ro) service of the Kochi Corporation has failed to fetch the desired result. Jaleel, Minister for Local Self-Government, and Kadannappally Ramachandran, Minister for Ports, in Thiruvananthapuram, on a request from the civic body. KSINC could not make a commitment on the day on which trained masters would be deployed for operating the vessels, she said. Besides the representatives of various stakeholder agencies, the secretary of Water Resources Department will be too in the committee, she said. The shortage of qualified and trained masters for operating the vessels was also worrying Kerala Shipping and Inland Navigation Corporation (KSINC), which was selected for operating the vessels for the civic body..