Dense forests, green tea estates and crisp blue skies. Yet two villages, deep in the Nilgiri hills, weren’t living in blissful splendour. On the contrary, they were steeped in a miasma of their own making. Both villages, Mallainagar and Kengarai Naduhatti, had no drainage system nor waste disposal plan. Surrounded by sewage and garbage, the two seemed to be outdoing each other in attracting mosquitoes and setting off the spread of malaria, filaria and dengue.
Mullainagar village is under the Konavakkarai panchayat and Kengarai Naduhatti village under the Kengarai panchayat in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.
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