The Sillahalla Ecological Social Protection Association (SESPA) urged to scrap the Silhalla pumped hydro-electric storage project considering the fragile ecology of the Nilgiris.
The proposed hydroelectric project aims at building the two dams with a 10 km tunnel and is going to be developed in the middle of the said 25 villages.
It is warned that around 1,000 acres of farming land and 500 acres of forest land would likely be submerged.