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Nearly 5,000 families successful Chellanam panchayat stay exposed to the vagaries of what threatens to beryllium a unsmooth oversea this monsoon, arsenic the second-phase operation of the tetrapod-based seawall, launched with overmuch fanfare up of the Assembly elections, has made small progress.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the 2nd phase, spanning 6.10 km from Puthenthode to Manassery, astatine an estimated outgo of ₹404 crore to beryllium funded nether the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board, connected March 7, 2026. Though nary timeline was announced for its completion, encouraged by the project, galore affected families who had moved retired connected rent person since returned aft repairing houses damaged by oversea incursions utilizing resources raised with sizeable difficulty. The archetypal signifier of the project, covering a 7.3-km agelong from Chellanam to Puthenthode, was completed astatine a outgo of ₹347 crore.
