Thekkady: Tourist boat services in the famous Thekkady lake in Kerala - suspended in the wake of the boat tragedy that claimed 45 lives on September 30 last year - will resume on Saturday with all safety measures in place.
While Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) would be operating three boats, the Forest Department would press into service two barges, tourism officials said.
All the five boats had been given fitness certificates by the authorities concerned, they said.
The number of passengers to be allowed aboard had been fixed at less than their normal capacity and no person without proper tickets would be allowed to enter them. The cruisers would not be allowed to sit on the upper decks.
The vessels had been provided with adequate number of life jackets while properly trained helmsmen and sub-crew had been appointed to steer them, officials said.
In a major boat tragedy, 45 persons, all of them tourists from other states, drowned when KTDC's vessel Jalaknayaka - with 76 people on board - capsized in the lake at the famous high range picnic spot located 210 km from Thekkady on September 30.
The probe into the accident showed that the ill-fated boat had structural and design flaws.
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