There are two important news concerning Ramnad coast in news paper today (25 th Feb 2020) .

The first news relates to the carelessness with which Dhunushkodi, is preserved today to which road has been laid recently .
According to the news , shops selling trinkets have mushroomed blocking views of dilapidated church and its impressive facade, a silent witness to the tragedy of December 1964. The walls of the church and the remnant of altar have been disfigured with scribblings and scratches of depraved artists. Veiled attempts have also been made to denude the left over structure by removing the fossilised bricks. Some impressive remnants of railway station and custom house, and post office are vandalised by boorish tourists. There is no one to protect these monuments.
I wonder why the Sivaganga diocese to which the church originally belonged has turned a blind eye to the building. can they not install a roof and a few statues of saints in this ravaged church building to prevent it becoming an urinal and toilet of visiting tourists. ?
Remember ! the building hosted once before ,Our Lord. . Renovation of this building and installation of a few statues with a house to a caretaker will keep the area neat and tidy.
The remnants of buildings with grey eminence remind one of the various abbeys plundered by Henry viii in England when he dissolved the Catholic monasteries at a time he fought with His holiness the Pope when the church denied permission for his additional marriage.
The second news item refers to the copious flow of sewage of Rameshwaram town, its houses, choultries, hotels , lodges, into the sea next only to the landing point of boats that return from sea after their catch. The blue sea in Rameshwaram coast is black and dark with plastic bottles and solid waste floating. No wonder then the spot breeds flies in plenty that swarm on the catch that arrives by the boat. It is too unhygienic and the fisherfolk who dawdle in the guttery sea suffer skin diseases besides pulmonary affectations.

The crying need of the hour is an underground drainage system with final discharge not in the sea.

The department of environmental pollution has to pay attention to this . The Rameshwaram municipality has to attend to this problem .
Also the Ramanathapuram collectorate
By A.X. Alexander.