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TN Govt inks pact with SCE for Cooum river
cleaning

Chennai, Mar 18 Tamil Nadu government today
inked a pact with the Singapore Cooperation
Enterprise (SCE) with a view to clean up the
highly-polluted Cooum river in the city. The
Memorandum of Understanding with SCE, an agency
formed by the Ministry of Trade and Industry and
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore,
will allow the latter to share inputs in project
development, sharing expertise with local
engineers and advise the state government on
various aspects of Cooum revamping.
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The SCE team is on a three-day visit to the state and
scheduled to make field visits tomorrow, a government
release here said. Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin had
visited Singapore last year to study the cleaning up
process of Singapore river and submitted a report to
Chief Minister M Karunanidhi.