A community plan in which the Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam will undertake to provide safe drinking water for schools and street lights to its neighbouring hamlets has been inaugurated.

Mr Bharathwaj, Director of the Department of Electronic Technology, inaugurated the scheme yesterday and said this is part of an ongoing programme under which several basic amenities of the surrounding hamlets have been continually met by the plant.

The plan was inaugurated at the Government higher secondary school at Sadurangapattinam near here, close to the Kalpakkam plant.

Eighteen government schools in hamlets including Mamallapuram, Kadampadi and Manamai will benefit under the current safe drinking water scheme, an official release said.

Each school will get a storage tank of capacity between 500 litres to 2,000 litres (as per student strength) and ultraviolet ray filters for purifying the water.

The plan will also include providing street lights to the Pudupattinam, Vayalur and Ayapakkam panchayats, costing about Rs 5 lakh in total, the release said.

The Pavani Electricity Project at Kalpakkam (part of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research) also dedicated to the Vayalur community a reading room built at a cost of Rs 5 lakh.

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