Lawson’s Bay beach may be ready by May-end

A beautiful lagoon with calm seas and relatively long stretch of beach Lawson’s Bay beach is a definite crowd puller and the visitors would be able to enjoy it all by the end of May .

With a view to improve access to it and create facilities for tourists to enjoy it the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation initiated a project some three years ago to beautify it with an estimated outlay of Rs. 13.34 crore.

The biggest eyesore has been the gedda which the callous citizens over the years have converted into a sewer line sullying the water and the entire area.

The main component of the beautification project was to clear the flow channel of the Gedda which has been completed.

“Though not in the project we are looking at how to divert the sewage to the sewage treatment plant at Appu Ghar to ensure that only clear water flows to the sea,” Commissioner Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation Praveen Kumar told The Hindu . “We might take it up in the next phase,” he added.

A new double road with wide pavements is being laid to the beach from the China Waltair junction passing by the Waltair Bus Depot. The work is going on at a brisk pace and is expected to be completed in another 15 days. The burial ground adjacent the Waltair Bus Depot has been given a facelift and compound walls painted.

Of the other components of the project, construction of box culvert is complete and beach retaining wall and levelling work are half done.

The GVMC is building community toilets and appointing security guards to ensure that the residents discontinue the habit of open defecation, the Commissioner said.

After levelling work is completed we would be able to take up soft landscaping on the beach. All this should be ready by end of May, he said.