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The sea has swallowed homes, roads, wells, and power & water lines in Kasaragod’s Uppala, trapping families between crashing waves and the elevated railway line. In this ground report, residents describe life in precarious houses, with erratic power, saline drinking water, and the daily risk of walking along railway tracks to reach schools, colleges, and workplaces. Assault of the waves captures the human cost of the government’s failure to act on repeated demands for a seawall.
The first phase of the state government's ambitious Endosulfan Rehabilitation Village is now complete. The first phase encompasses a clinical psychology block and a consultation & hydrotherapy block. The construction of the first phase commenced on May 25, 2022. The completion cost of the first phase was Rs 4.17 crore.
The recent protest in Thottappally a small coastal village in the Alappuzha district of Kerala, against sand mining, makes it clear that we are far from sustainable sand mining.
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