Protesters demand cancellation of plans to develop Ooty Race Course into eco-park

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Citizens of the Nilgiris staging a protestation  successful  beforehand   of the Race Course gross  successful  Udhagamandalam.

Citizens of the Nilgiris staging a protestation successful beforehand of the Race Course gross successful Udhagamandalam. | Photo Credit: SATHYAMOORTHY M

Protesters gathered astatine the gross of the Ooty Race Course successful Udhagamandalam connected Tuesday, and raised slogans against the plans to make the country into an eco-park.

The 55-acre park, which is the past remaining notable green-space wrong the town, is to beryllium developed into an eco-park, with multilevel car parking facilities, arsenic was announced by the authorities recently. However, environmentalists who person looked implicit the connection authorities that the country is to beryllium developed into an eco-park successful sanction only, arsenic the taxon that are being introduced are non-native and volition change the wetland.

Published - March 24, 2026 08:23 p.m. IST

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