Geotextile tube meant to prevent costal erosion in tatters in AP, Odisha

Nearly 34% of India's coastline was under varying degrees of coastal erosion, noted a report by the National Centre for Coastal Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences.

India has a coastline of more than 7,500 km. What this means in climate change terms is that people living along this coastline, particularly along the cyclone-prone Bay of Bengal, are vulnerable to the fallouts of climate change such as sea-level rise, saline water ingress and increasingly frequent severe cyclones. A method the Indian government has adopted to deal with such impacts is the construction of geotextile tube. Geotextile tube are engineered structures that are tube-like sacks filled with sand and sometimes covered with gabions--a wire box filled with small