
Edavanakkad residents to hunt authorized reprieve as tetrapod seawall set up will get delayed
They will strategy the Kerala High Court looking for a directive to the federal government to arrange a tetrapod seawall alongside the affected shore, a 2.50-km stretch from Aniyil to Kuzhuppilly, for which a ₹56-crore undertaking was sanctioned earlier this yr, however no progress has been made since. Of this, ₹35 crore can be allotted by the Goshree Islands Development Authority (GIDA) and the remaining ₹21 crore can be launched from the catastrophe mitigation fund for Ernakulam district.
Litigation will mark the most recent section of the protracted battle of the coastal inhabitants who hit the streets and blockaded the arterial Vypeen-Munambam highway, bringing site visitors to a standstill, on June 27, 2024. This was adopted by a hartal referred to as by Theera Samrakshana Samithi, a folks’s collective, the very subsequent day when blockades have been arrange on the stretch of the State freeway passing by means of the coastal panchayat.
“It has been 21 years for the reason that tsunami washed away the coastal highway and the seawall, exposing the coastal inhabitants to the vagaries of the ocean. Even the short-term answer of erecting a geobag-based seawall has not been accomplished on the affected stretch but. Though the GIDA secretary has been entrusted with finishing the formalities to safe administrative sanction for the undertaking, there was no progress,” stated P.S. Sabu, chairman of Edavanakkad Janakeeya Samara Samithi.
On Monday (July 21, 2025), the Samithi staged a symbolic protest by laying tetrapod in entrance of the Edavanakkad village workplace. The protesters additionally expressed doubts over going forward with laying geobag avoiding Pazhangad seaside, one of many worst affected areas. Waves invade households alongside the shore consistently, disrupting day by day life. They warned of continuous with the protest until options are discovered to tidal flooding and alleged anomalies within the Coastal Regulation Zone map.
Edavanakkad is likely one of the panchayats within the district to have handed a decision demanding to inform tidal flooding as a catastrophe and embody it within the record of State- and national-level disasters.
Published – July 22, 2025 08:26 pm IST
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