Nellimunda residents staged a six-hour road blockade demanding faster renovation of the Meppadi–Chooralmala route. The protest ended after the. Nellimunda: For eight long years, we've endured waterlogged craters during the monsoons and suffocating dust through the summers along this road. We have reached our breaking point. We won't back down from this protest until there is a concrete solution, vented Salim Thayyil, a local resident.