India’s ‘Ghost Villages’: A Changing Environment Is Forcing People To Leave Home -Manish Kumar
* 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. 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. Please click here to read more. |
The Wire Science, 14 February, 2022, https://science.thewire.in/environment/india-ghost-villages-changing-environment-forcing-people-leave-home/?fbclid=IwAR2RGPfFTmzoL-lejpWBz3Nigo9P4H2utroKKQ58jHFXharUOiYVrTW-3DI
Tagged with: Cyclones Climate Crisis Climate Change Extreme Weather Conditions Livelihoods Coastal Areas Sea Erosion Climate refugees
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