To facilitate the voting process for the displaced community, the district administration arranged eight special KSRTC buses to ferry voters from their temporary settlements.
Political leaders, too, lashed out at the Centre. Revenue Minister K Rajan accused the Union government of deliberately downplaying the scale of the tragedy.
The proposal seeks to conserve the disaster zone as a living laboratory for research, education, and geotourism, while also serving as a memorial for the more than 400 lives lost.
“I came to Vellarmala in 2009 and it was my first job. Over the years, I developed an emotional bond with this village as children and elders showered me with love.
