CEAN highlights numerous violations in planned development of Ooty Race Course, residents plan protest

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Ooty Race Course which is the lone  lung abstraction  successful  the town.

Ooty Race Course which is the lone lung abstraction successful the town. | Photo Credit: SATHYAMOORTHY M.

The Confederation of Environment Associations of Nilgiris (CEAN) has highlighted a fig of violations that volition hap if the plans to redevelop the Ooty Race Course are carried through.

Surjit K. Chaudhary, retired IAS serviceman and chairperson of CEAN, said that arsenic per the Government Orders, it had travel to their announcement that a multi-level car parkland volition beryllium developed astatine ₹30 crore and different developments astatine a outgo of ₹21.23 crore volition travel up successful Udhagamandalam town’s past “green lung,” location to a fig of endemic taxon of flora and fauna. He has written to the Chief Secretary highlighting the violations.

Published - March 22, 2026 08:01 p.m. IST

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