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The decision to order a judicial probe was taken by the state cabinet on Wednesday evening, Kerala Chief Minister A K Antony told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram after the meeting.
Twenty-nine people were drowned when a passenger boat ferrying passengers between Muhama in Alapuzha district and Kumarakom in Kottayam district capsized about one km from the shore on Saturday last.
State Transport Minister K B Ganesh Kumar has been asked to submit a detailed proposal within a week on modernizing the water transport sector, including replacing aged boats with new ones.
Meanwhile, to normalise water transport in the Muhama-Kumarakom sector, the cabinet sanctioned Rs 500,000 to the Kerala Water Transport Corporation to hire private boats and repair old ones, he said.
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