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The camps get active at 6 am every day.
Earlier, the government had cancelled this year's Champion's Boat League after the Wayanad landslides.
The organisers and the boat clubs had spent hefty amounts for the preparations of the boat race that was originally scheduled to be held on August 10.
The decision was taken after a meeting with Alappuzha district collector.
The boats shaped like the Chinese dragon would join the fleet of regal snake boats, iruttukuthi and veppuvallam on the race tracks in the Punnamada Lake.
From 1954 onwards, the annual regatta came to be known as the Nehru Trophy Boat Race.
The event, to be held on August 10, is expected to have Indian President Droupadi Murmu as its chief guest.
A graphic designer, Bijimol took inspiration from nature to create the novel concept of a kingfisher rowing a boat.
According to an official of the NTBR organising committee, the plan is to make 100 seats available in the luxury box.
Over two lakh spectators are expected for the 70th annual Nehru Trophy Boat Race to be held on Punnamada Lake on August 10 this year.
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