Just about 68 km from Visakhapatnam, the Kovvada village in Srikakulam lies in ruins. Rows of hutments here have been swept away and dozens of boats lining the shore have been damaged in the razing Hudhud that took the coastal belt by `storm’ on Sunday. Still shaken by its impact, people here are now struggling to bounce back to normalcy, while dreading to wonder just what the scale of destruction at the site would’ve been had the proposed Kovvada Nuclear Power Plant come up in the area by now! First given shape close to a decade ago, this project has been firmed up by the Centre over the past three-four years, with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), in 2013, even going ahead and enhancing the capacity of the proposed plant from the initial 6,000 MW to 10,000 MV. To be spread over 2,000 acres (roughly), the plant is likely to adversely affect four villages -Pedda Kovvada-Chinna Kovvada, Ramachandrapuram, Tekkali and Guddem -that house over 3,000 people.