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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s ‘Ghost Villages’: A Changing Environment Is Forcing People To Leave Home -Manish Kumar

India’s ‘Ghost Villages’: A Changing Environment Is Forcing People To Leave Home -Manish Kumar

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published Published on Feb 14, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 15, 2022


-The Wire Science

* Several houses along the eastern Indian coast have been impacted by constant sea erosion, cyclones and other environmental factors. Those living there have abandoned these houses.
* Some living in these vulnerable areas, close to the Bay of Bengal, voluntarily moved as the tidal waves hit their homes, while others were resettled by the government.
* Inter-state migration from such coastal hotspots has also been reported from Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and some other states.
* Experts say that a lack of a concrete resettlement policy for such internally displaced population are making things worse for these communities.

Uppada is a coastal village in the East Godavari district, around 18 km north of the Kakinada port in Andhra Pradesh. The village has faced ingress of seawater over the past few years. Half of the shoreline of the village has hardly any sandy beach left. High tidal surges hit against the partially damaged houses at the edge of the village coast as the basement of these houses are slowly getting eroded into the sea. Villagers claim that there are more than 100 such ‘ghost’ houses here, which were earlier inhabited but are now abandoned because of the damages.

“Now, around 100 such houses lie in compromised situations and can break away into the sea any day. In the last two decades, hundreds of houses including a village market, school, temple and a bus stand have gone into the sea due to cyclones and sea erosion,” said 40-year-old S. Prasad, a resident of Uppada where, he said, the total population is around 20,000.

N. Kishore, another resident of the village claimed that a large population of the village has resettled in other areas like Naikar colony, P. Lakshmi Colony, Vengageta colony. Extreme weather conditions, impacted livelihoods and triggered the displacement of people in the Uppada village where the majority of the households were engaged in the fishing trade.

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The Wire Science, 14 February, 2022, https://science.thewire.in/environment/india-ghost-villages-changing-environment-forcing-people-leave-home/?fbclid=IwAR2RGPfFTmzoL-lejpWBz3Nigo9P4H2utroKKQ58jHFXharUOiYVrTW-3DI


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