As Dindigul district administration begins work on issuing e-pass for vehicles entering Kodaikanal, activists in the hill station are upbeat about the steps being taken following the recent Madras High Court order to save the fragile biosphere.
As per the details given by the Kodaikanal Municipality on April 19, the day of voting, 2,091 vehicles entered the town. On April 20, the numbers went up to 2,377 and on April 21 it came down to 1,610. The past weekend after the court order was issued, the number of vehicles has visibly reduced, says P. Sathiyanathan, Kodaikanal Municipal Commissioner.
He hopes that the e-pass would enable the municipality to know in advance the type of vehicle that would be entering the hills, the number of people in the vehicle and the place where they would be staying and also the number of days they would be in the hill station. “These details are necessary as it would help in traffic management and also waste management.”
