Activists take out jatha to oppose Sharavathi Pumped Storage Project in Shivamogga

Activists of Parisarakkagi Naavu, a forum for the environment, and Rashtrabhaktara Balaga took retired a jatha successful Shivamogga metropolis connected Thursday opposing the Sharavathi Pumped Storage Project. Scores of radical joined the jatha riding bicycles and two-wheelers that was flagged disconnected astatine Allama Prabhu Park and covered salient areas of the metropolis and concluded astatine the Deputy Commissioner’s office.

The protesters maintained that the projected Sharavathi PSP, designed to make 2,000 MW of powerfulness by connecting the 2 dams done an underground pipeline, would origin terrible harm to the Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot, too harming the uncommon flora and the fauna successful the area. The place, wherever the task would travel up, had been known for the lion-tailed macaque, an endangered species.