Temporary Sea Wall Built By Fishermen In Mangalore: Check Out Why

June 18: To check sea erosion during this monsoon in Chitrapura on the outskirts of Mangalore, the fishermen families including women & children have built a temporary sea wall.
This is a 600 -metre-long temporary protection wall built to check sea erosion engulfing a large portion of the shore including properties owned by fishermen in the area.
The fishermen families worked in two batches with 200 people from 8 am to 6 pm daily since May 18. An eight-feet deep trench using an earth mover and later placed around 350 to 400 jumbo size sandbags filled with sand in the trench. Each sandbag was filled with 3,000 to 4000 kg of sand. On the jumbo sandbags, sand filled in around 12,000 small cement bags were placed for about two to three feet height. The sandbags were tied using nylon thread to ensure that it does not get eroded by the force of the water.
Mangalore North MLA Dr Y Bharath Shetty visited the area when the work was in progress and assured to compensate the amount spent to erect the temporary wall.