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Environmentalists from Parisarakkagi Naavu, an biology organisation, submitted a memorandum to Mysuru Deputy Commissioner G. Lakshmikanth Reddy, demanding that contiguous steps beryllium taken to halt the ongoing works atop Chamundi Hills successful Mysuru nether the PRASHAD project, connected January 20.
PRASHAD is an abbreviation for the Ministry of Tourism’s strategy ‘Pilgrimage Rejuvenation And Spiritual Augmentation Drive’, which focuses connected processing and identifying pilgrimage sites crossed India to enrich the spiritual tourism experience.
The environmentalists person opposed the implementation of PRASHAD strategy works atop Chamundi Hills arsenic it is simply a “protected wood area”, saying that specified a task volition airs a menace to specified a “fragile and delicate hill”.
Environment Impact Assessment
Before commencing works to conception respective buildings and different factual structures by spending ₹40 crore, an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) indispensable beryllium conducted to measure the interaction connected environment, the organisation said.
“To the champion of our knowledge, the EIA has not been conducted truthful far,” it said.
Over the past 25 years, a ample fig of houses and buildings person been constructed connected Chamundi Hills. “Experts person repeatedly warned that if constructions proceed beyond the hill’s carrying capacity, it could pb to landslides successful definite places. Therefore, the hill’s carrying capableness indispensable beryllium scientifically assessed immediately,” it said.
“As per the Mysuru Master Plan, the Chamundi Hill country is simply a practice site. Before undertaking immoderate enactment successful this area, support indispensable beryllium obtained from the District Heritage Committee. At present, this has not been done,” said Parisarakkagi Naavu successful the memorandum.
The buying complexes already constructed connected the elevation and the different facilities built successful the sanction of providing convenience to the devotees are not being decently utilised and person go redundant, resulting successful wastage of nationalist money, the environmentalists said.
The memorandum, which has demanded an contiguous halt of the “unilateral and arbitrary” execution of the project, has been signed, among others, by A.T. Ramaswamy, erstwhile MLA, environmentalists Parashurame Gowda and Leela Venkatesh, Bhamy V. Shenoy, Major General (Retd) S.G. Vombatkere from Mysuru Grahakara Parishat (MGP), Kamal Gopinath from People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), and Malavika Gubbivani from Gubbivani Trust.
Parashurame Gowda, wide caput of Parisarakkagi Naavu, said the memorandum had been signed by members of MGP, Team Mysuru, Karnataka Yuvajana Network, PUCL, Clean Mysuru Foundation, Belavala Foundation, Jai Karnataka Parishat, and Gubbivani Trust.
Copies of the memorandum person besides been submitted to the Mysuru Zilla Panchayat CEO and the Joint Director of the Tourism Department, helium said.
