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The Kerala High Court has directed the Additional Chief Secretary, Water Resources department, to instrumentality indispensable steps to guarantee that nary harm to beingness oregon spot occurs owed to the lack of capable strengthening oregon protective structures/mechanisms for the residents of Edavanakkad grama panchayath successful Ernakulam district.
This followed a plea by residents of the country who pointed retired that the panchayat has a coastal enactment of astir 2.4 kms, which is susceptible to oversea and ungraded erosion. They demanded urgent steps to conception a seawall to support the coast.
The District Collector had submitted an affidavit connected 29 October, stating that the Vypin Island (where the grama panchayat is located) is simply a constrictive agelong of onshore with the Arabian Sea connected the westbound and the backwaters connected the east. Its coastal magnitude of astir 22.7 km was earlier protected by seawalls. Over time, beardown waves and ‘underscouring’ caused portions of these seawalls to collapse, allowing seawater to participate residential areas adjacent during mean oversea attacks. The affidavit further said that the astir susceptible areas fell wrong the Edavanakkad and Nayarambalam panchayats.
The HC hoped that astatine slightest present the steps volition beryllium taken with the seriousness and urgency that the concern deserved.
