The river is shrinking everyday due to the actions of encroachers. Today the fort is almost ruined and encroachers and hutments occupy it. The government's efforts to relocate the encroachers has not yielded satisfactory results. Harrisons Malayalam Ltd. went to the Kerala High Court demanding that the encroachers be evicted. Such encroachers often later oppose a rail to trail conversion. Now in 2017 on what basis waqf board is saying that they are encroachers? Along parts of the rampart, encroachers have now built houses, garages and even toilets.