Thottappally Harbour is having deficiency for Dredging

Ibnlive.in.com reported that around 100 boats as well as of the Police and the Fishing departments, have been trapped in the Thottappally fishing harbour due to sand accumulation.

Apparently deficiency for Dredging causes this situation. Commercial Fisherman say that fishing industry will disappear without dredging.
Harbour Engineering Department has invited the tender for the dredging works there are no takers for the work.

“The Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) has a dredger in Alappuzha. But the Harbour Engineering Department prefers to entrust the work to some other contractors. It is a time-consuming process but the officials will have monetary benefit”, Thottappally ward member Raju C said.

Fisheries Minister K Babu made a commitment to solve the issue, but apparently his promise turned into a failure by not to take any action in this regard.

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