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SV Krishna Chaitanya ByExpress News ServiceCHENNAI: The ongoing manhole work on Marina beach for the 2,250-km Chennai-Andaman submarine cable system is violating Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) rules, it is alleged. While granting CRZ clearance, one condition by the ministry was that all beach manhole locations must be on landward side and not on the beach. It has a street fish market and the site where the beach manhole is being constructed is their fish landing site. K Bharathi of South Indian Fisher Welfare Federation told Express that DoT contractors are doing the construction literally inside the sea. This has been encroached by DoT for building beach manhole for Chennai-Andaman cable project..