A 2.6km stretch of an under construction concrete guard wall along the Marine Drive or the coastal highway off East Midnapore’s Tajpur collapsed on Wednesday morning under the brunt of tidal waves during Cyclone Yaas and left 3,000 homes in 14 coastal villages prone to long-term flooding.
By Thursday morning, hundreds of families had left their mud homes after gushing water had damaged several structures. Sources said that 400m of the proposed 3km guard wall had remained incomplete.
Explaining the reason for the collapse, an irrigation department official said additional support structures for the guard wall, work for which began in November last year, had not been installed yet.
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