Tamil Nadu Tourism Minister Okay .Ramachandran (center) inspecting at Dodabetta peak for the opportunity of rope car service. File
| Photo Credit: M. Sathyamoorthy
Tamil Nadu Tourism Minister, Okay. Ramachandran, inspected the Doddabetta Peak to determine the feasibility of a cable car mission operating between Doddabetta Peak and Manthada.
However, concerns over the environmental impression of the tasks have been raised by native conservationists.
Mr. Ramachandran instructed presspersons that the feasibility for a cable-car system of round 1.74 km was being studied. The Minister additionally stated that safer obstacles are being imported and that steps to make the realm safer are additionally being undertaken. District collector, S.P.Amrith and Director of tourism, Sandeep Nanduri and B. Chandra Mohan, Principal Secretary, Tourism, Culture, and Religious Endowments Department had been additionally current.
Mr. Ramachandran additionally visited the Hindustan Photo Films (HPF) manufacturing unit the place there are plans to construct an adventure park.
The plans by the federal government have been met with combined reactions with many conservationists apprehensive that the tasks will have an effect on forest areas and wildlife habitats. The defunct HPF manufacturing unit is dwelling to a wide range of wildlife, together with Indian gaur, Sambar deer, leopards and sloth bear. There are concerns that the cable car may also necessitate destroying Shola forests alongside the Doddabetta slopes, stated G. Janardhanan, President of the Ooty Public Awareness Association.
Mr. Janardhanan stated that latest tasks just like the Ooty Government Medical College and Hospital had destroyed forest habitats utilized by wildlife inside Udhagamandalam city, and that the tasks in the HPF manufacturing unit and the Doddabetta Peak would additional impression native ecology.
N. Mohanraj, a Nilgiris-based conservationist, stated the cable car mission could be extra helpful if it was to be applied as a mass transit system between Mettupalayam and Udhagamandalam. “The cable car could extend to Mettupalayam from Udhagamandalam. This way, there would be fewer cars coming to Udhagamandalam and as a consequence, fewer vehicles even during the peak tourist season,” he stated.
