“…Apart from this on the other hand it also faces various environmental challenges such as SLR, saline intrusion, loss of coastal landforms due to shoreline changes especially because of coastal erosion, declining sediment load, saline intrusion, contamination of coastal aquifer due to hasty alteration in LULC persuaded by climate change (Hentry et al 2010;Kaliraj et al 2017). The Kanyakumari district has a total of 17 coastal villages that are encompassed in three taluks viz., Agasteeswarm (7), Kalkulam (4), and Killiyoor (6). There are 14 different LULC feature classes viz., aqua pond, barren land, coconut plantation, creek/river, farmland, harbor/jetty, human settlement with plantation, mangrove forest, mining, open jungle, pond/lake, rocky shore, salt pan and sandy beach in the study area.…”