Kendrapada: Reports prepared by the US National Aviation and Space Agency (NASA) show that the port city of Paradip, in Jagatsinghpur Regency, will be among places that can sink into Bay Bay at the end of this century.
It is estimated that the paradip will be under 0.59 sea water meters in 2100, send shock waves in the Jagatsinghpur coast belt and the nearby Kendrapada district.
“NASA has created a visualization tool that makes data on future sea levels up from the inter-government panel about climate change (IPCC) that can be accessed by the public.
This tool, which is held on the NASA sea level portal, allows to access details based on projection of the assessment report The six IPCC, was released on Monday, “said Ranjan Panda, an environmental lover and water initiative organizer.
The map with NASA’s projection of the paradip “Paradip area was covered with solid mangrove forests until the 1950s.
In the 1960s, the government denied the mangrove forest to build a port.
Mangrove trees protect the coastline and because of cutting mangroves, paradip, for the first time, Facing the ocean erosion problem in the 1960s.
To protect the port of the paradip, the coastal area packaged by the state stone to prevent the sea to devour the port city.
But seawall in the paradip worsens erosion problems in Satabhaya beach villages, Pentha and other villages in the Kendrapada district , towards the east side of the paradip.
A large number of people will be displaced in this country because of rising sea water according to the IPCC report, “added Panda.
On January 3, 1962, the stone foundation for the Port Paradip was placed by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, four kilometers from the sea.
Now, The Foundation Stone is located just at the distance of the handshake from the sea.
“The sea crawled sacrificed the paradip.
Reports by NASA have pressed the panic button in the administration.
The Paradip Port is the center of many industries, oil refinery, two fertilizer plants other than other factories.
It is time for the government injecting a concrete plan to save the port city from the sea marching,” Word full of Rout, a social worker at the Pararp.
The marching sea also devoured a 400-year-old Panchubarahi temple on the seafront of Satabhaya Gram Panchayat in the district of Kendrapada.
“The sea has changed its pathway in the paradip and the closest area where the government and port authority builds seawall in the paradip.
Administration is conducting a place assessment of the situation regularly,” Kanhu Charan Dhir said, additional district judge Paradip.