Sernabatim beach concrete steps reduced to debris

Tourists find difficult to access the beach because of broken steps

Margao: Locals from Sernabatim, Colva stepped up to provide a remedy in the crumbling and damaged steps leading to the beach by laying sand and sandbags to help people gain access to the beach.

For the past several months, concrete steps leading to the Sernabatim beach were crumbling even as the local panchayat wrote to state departments to help repair them. However, locals in the area, are fed up with the poor infrastructure and lack of efforts into fixing the steps, and

took to remedy the situation themselves.

A local vendor located near the beach remarked that many people visiting the beach

found it very difficult to walk down to the beach. “The tourist season has not yet started but the locals who come to the

beach found it very difficult to gain

access to the beach because of the broken steps. We only hope that some sort of repair work is done on the steps before the season actually commences,” he said.

Currently, bags of sand and loose sand are layered on the broken steps and it has come as some sort of relief to the task of climbing the steps. Local panchayat

members have in the past written to state departments including the tourism department, however, they have received responses

that the repair work should be done by the Water Resources Department (WRD).

It is assumed that the rough sea and high tides in the recent past has been the cause of the

ruined and crumbling steps. Many stretches of the beach shore have also witnessed sand erosion since the last one year.

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