A PIL has been filed in the Kerala High Court seeking a stronger tetrapod-backed seawall along the Vypin coast to protect residents from sea intrusion and coastal erosion. The Court has asked the Irrigation Department and local panchayats to file reports and affidavits on the issue before the next hearing.
The Kerala High Court sought responses from the Centre and state on a PIL to halt pineapple cultivation at Athirappilly and Kallal estates, noting the land’s “potentiality of a man-animal conflict,” and asked the Plantation Corporation to address objections.
