Furtado has warned that DDMA will be compelled to evacuate all the residents of illegal hutments forcefully if they don’t leave voluntarily.
The District Collector had on Monday declared the entire stretch of the beach area in front of Ravindra Bhavan at Baina, Vasco up to Sand Dunes area near sewerage treatment plant at Kate Baina, as “unsafe and disaster prone” and restrict movement of the public in the area, including those who are residing illegally since the area is unsafe for habitation.
In the notice issued today, Furtado said his office has received reports that the stretch of the sea shore at Baina is further eroding at a fast pace and is posing a constant danger to the houses/huts located on sands of the sea shore.
, within high tide line thereby rendering the area unsafe for habitation and movement of public at odd hours.
He said that Water Resources Department officials have taken temporary preventive measures by providing and laying of sand bags in order to protect the embankment from further eroding and to avoid further damage to life and property. “WRD officials have reported that this temporary measure may not withstand the danger if rising of sea water level increases with heavy downpour of rains likely to be expected in the coming days. The report said there is every possibility that this may lead to washing away of the hutments as the hutments are built on sand dunes and have no firm base and proper foundation. The hutments are likely to collapse anytime with cyclonic winds thus causing danger to the life and property,” Furtado added.
