Digha eyeing the country's first marine tunnel aquarium like Singapore

It would be a joint venture between the BJP ruled Centre and the TMC ruled West Bengal government and they plan to pool their resources to build the country's first marine tunnel aquarium in Digha on the lines of that in Singapore.
Union environment, forest and climate change minister Prakash Javadekar was in Kolkata to inaugurate the Zoological Survey of India's centenary celebrations. He has discussed the matter with the environment minister of Bengal and, if all goes well, the marine tunnel museum in Digha could be a reality.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 2 July 2016.

The Zoological Survey of India had a marine museum in Digha and it was recently modernised at a cost of Rs 40 lakh. It is technically possible to convert it into a marine tunnel museum. If the state government submits a detailed project report and, if found feasible, the center would support it.
Beautifying Digha has always been one of the priorities of chief minister Mamata Banerjee. The proposed marine tunnel museum, which will be the first of its kind in India, will give a fillip to her plans. The director of the Zoological Survey of India has indicated that there is enough space in the museum to turn it into a state of the art marine aquarium so that visitors can enjoy marine life through a tunnel.
The museum, at present, houses more than 500 marine species that include fish, snakes, molluscs, corals, crabs, prawns, lobsters and echinoderms.


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