Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Jun 7: Sea erosion has worsened in Kaiko, Killerianagara, and Someshwar Uchila on Tuesday June 6. On Tuesday, a house was inundated by the surging sea while over 15 houses are facing danger. Sea erosion however did not affect some areas where pilot works to provide permanent relief from sea erosion has been undertaken with ADB assistance.

A house belonging to late Latif at Indiranagara on Kaiko Road crashed to the ground, after violent waves repeatedly lashed its walls. The family members had shifted to a neighbouring house two days back, sensing danger. On Tuesday, locals along with family members shifted household goods out of the house before the house crashed.

Over ten houses including a mosque at Kaiko are facing danger. Out of them, two families have been shifted. More house face peril at Mukkacheri, Killerianagara and Seaground.

Sea erosion has also been witnessed at the beaches of Someshwar and Uchila. The fisheries road at Uchila faces the danger of getting washed away. Sea has reached very near this road, and this road, which happens to be the only link that provides connectivity from Someshwar to Uchila Battapady, may be destroyed unless temporary works are undertaken to save it immediately. People are of the opinion that because of permanent works undertaken to stop sea erosion at Mogaveerapatna and Kotepura, fury of the sea has been redirected towards Kaiko, Killeriyaqnagara and Someshwar Uchila in Ullal. Temporary walls made by way of stacking of boulders at Kaiko have been washed into the sea. Even the boulders placed at Uchila to stop the sea are getting inundated one by one, creating panic in the minds of the people.

Councillor of Ullal municipality, Muhammed Mukkacheri, feels that the erosion would have been less if berms were built at Kaiko, Killeriyanagara etc like the ones at Kotepura and Mogaveerapatna.