The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal has directed the state Environment, Forest and Climate Change department and Highways department to prepare landslide susceptibility mapping along the roads in the Western Ghats.
While hearing a case pertaining to the road expansion works along the Ooty to Coonoor and Kotagiri to Mettupalayam roads, the bench of judicial member Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana and expert member Satyagopal Korlapati observed, “The said departments should focus on the need for landslide susceptibility mapping and also suggest new developments that should be restricted and provide effective mitigation measures in areas prone to such disasters
