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Water Resources Minister Roshy Augustine has assured steps to expedite the Kollemcode-Pozhiyoor coastal extortion task successful Neyyattinkara.
He informed the Legislative Assembly connected Wednesday that the task has received revised fiscal authorisation of Rs. ₹93.22 crore from the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) and is presently successful the last signifier of method approval.
Replying to a submission raised by Neyyattinkara MLA K. Ansalan, the Minister said the task was initially approved with an allocation of ₹43.65 crore. However, the elaborate task study (DPR) was revised to see groynes on with the oversea partition aft considering the applicable difficulties flagged by the section sportfishing community. Following the fiscal authorisation connected the ground of the revised DPR, the authorities subsequently issued the ceremonial bid to proceed with the projected project.
The enactment volition beryllium undertaken connected a 1.2-km agelong successful accordance with the plan approved by the National Centre for Coastal Research. A task absorption portion was formed connected the lines of the exemplary adopted successful Chellanam successful Ernakulam to instrumentality the project. The Kerala Irrigation Infrastructure Development Corporation (KIIDC) has been appointed arsenic the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV).
Mr. Ansalan highlighted the terrible coastal erosion menace faced by the Kollamcode-Pozhiyoor region, which borders Tamil Nadu and is location to implicit 3,000 sportfishing families. He highlighted that galore houses were damaged owed to oversea erosion successful the constrictive coastal agelong wherever the Neyyar stream meets the sea.
He added that the section residents and fishermen had expressed concerns implicit constructing lone a oversea partition and had demanded groynes, which would not lone supply amended erosion power but besides enactment sportfishing activities. He besides sought assurance that the operation would statesman without hold and beryllium completed earlier the adjacent monsoon season.
