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Kanniyakumari District Collector M. Prathap inspected Azhikkal coastal colony successful Ganapathipuram municipality panchayat connected Tuesday to reappraisal measures aimed astatine preventing oversea h2o intrusion into the village.
Sea h2o entering the colony during the southwest monsoon has go a recurrent improvement owed to changes successful the absorption of water currents and different meteorological factors. With the onset of southwest monsoon successful the archetypal week of June, the colony has erstwhile again been experiencing unsmooth seas, with waves entering streets and houses, causing hardships to residents.
During the visit, Mr. Prathap inspected the colony and interacted with section families to recognize the existent concern and the challenges they are facing.
He said that, with a presumption to strengthening marine infrastructure successful the colony and preventing oversea h2o intrusion, a feasibility gathering had been conducted to research the implementation of marine infrastructure facilities with the method enactment from IIT-Madras, by utilizing the revolving money of the Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare Department
Mr. Prathap added that archetypal and 2nd level consultations regarding the task person besides been completed with the information of villagers, fishermen and different stakeholders. During the 2nd level meeting, the projected layout program was approved with the consent of villagers and fishermen.
During the inspection, the collector further directed the officials to implicit the survey enactment expeditiously, instrumentality indispensable follow-up measures and instrumentality the project, taking into relationship the difficulties and inconvenience faced by the residents owed to repeated oversea h2o intrusion.
“All indispensable practice and enactment volition beryllium provided by the territory medication for the implementation of the project. In bid to find a imperishable solution to the occupation of oversea h2o intrusion successful Azhikkal, the Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare Department, IIT-Madras and District Administration volition enactment successful coordination and indispensable steps volition beryllium taken and a solution volition beryllium reached soon,” Mr. Prathap said.
Kanniyakumari District Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare Department Deputy Director, K.T. Gopinath, Executive Engineer of Fisheries Department, Premalatha, Assistant Director of Fisheries Department, Deepa, and different officials were present.
