Three boulders on hillock to be blasted
The Hindu
Decision follows Collector’s inspection with team of experts from Mines Dept.
Three huge boulders, including the one that took two lives on last Sunday, on the foothills of Kagithapattarai, off the Bengaluru Highway (NH 48), in Vellore, will be blasted using dynamite by the Mines Department soon.
The decision to blast the select boulders in the hillock comes after a site inspection by Collector P. Kumaravel Pandian, with a team of experts from the Mines Department in the district administration on Monday, the day after a mother and her daughter died when a boulder rolled down the hillock onto the houses on the foothills on Sunday.
Subsequently, the mines experts have identified three boulders that need to be removed immediately due to weak hold on the soil. These identified boulders are located one above the other on the foothills in Kagithapattarai.
