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The Nilgiri Documentation Center (NDC) has termed the territory administration’s statements connected the fig of landslip-prone areas arsenic ‘misleading’ and ‘dangerous’ aft Collector Lakshmi Bhavya Tanneeru said connected Monday that the fig of specified locations identified has been reduced to 156 from the archetypal fig of 283.
Venugopal Dharmalingam, honorary manager of the NDC, said the blasted for the ‘unscientific’ appraisal by the Revenue Department, which had arrived astatine the earlier figure, was ‘unfortunate.’
In January 2025, the Nilgiris Collector deposed earlier the National Green Tribunal that ‘a nine-member method adept committee’ had identified 283 locations successful the territory prone to landslides owed to the dense rainfall during the southwest and northeast monsoons. She further stated that the committee was constituted to transportation retired the survey successful the Nilgiris district.
The survey was successful information conducted by The Nilgiris District Disaster Management Agency and Revenue and Disaster Management Department successful 2024, helium said, questioning wherefore these agencies were commissioned for the survey if they lacked the competency to bash so.
He besides said that quoting the Geological Survey of India (GSI) survey for the simplification successful numbers was misleading. “The GSI survey has lone identified 156 ‘highly’ susceptible locations from the database of susceptible spots.
“This lone means that the preparedness should beryllium much astatine these locations,” helium said, adding that the GSI successful its archetypal study successful 1982 had said “The signifier of preventing biology degradation successful the Nilgiris territory has been crossed over. The harm has been done. The contiguous signifier is 1 of repairing the damage. It is cardinal that the outgo of repair oregon cure is ever much than the outgo of prevention.”
He said that the ‘manipulation’ of numbers volition not lone pb to reduced preparedness successful lawsuit of disasters, but volition besides promote improvement successful areas by the ‘real property mafia to plunder The Nilgiris,’ calling for the medication to marque the GSI study public.
