Farmers living near the Gap Road stretch of the Kochi-Dhanushkodi National Highway (NH) in Munnar will begin an indefinite day-and-night protest demanding compensation to landslip-hit farmers.
According to joint action council leaders, the protest will begin on Wednesday at the new Toll Plaza on the NH at Devikulam, near Munnar.
According to the farmers, large-scale crop damage was caused when heavy summer rain washed down heaps of soil that a road contractor had deposited into the farmlands in the downhill of the Gap road stretch. This happened around June 17, 2020. Yet another crop loss incident was during the landslip in the night of August 6, 2020.
