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A fact-finding study connected the Honnavar Port Project, which was released connected Tuesday, has called connected the State authorities to instantly revoke the biology clearance granted to the Honnavar Port Project.
The study prepared by the All Indian Central Council of Trade Union (AICCTU), FridaysForFuture-Karnataka (FFF-K), and People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) is simply a travel up to a fact-finding conducted successful 2024.
In its proposal to the government, it has demanded that an autarkic and participatory biology and societal interaction appraisal beryllium done that afloat considers the concerns of the section community.
Further, it said that each ongoing operation and roadworthy enactment connected to the task indispensable beryllium halted until ineligible and procedural requirements are complied with.
“The authorities indispensable besides behaviour a ceremonial survey of residential and occupational onshore successful Tonka 1 and Tonka 2 sportfishing villages and instrumentality steps to recognise and formalise onshore and lodging rights of residents who person lived determination for decades,” the study said.
The study has recommended that the authorities indispensable unconditionally retreat each transgression cases filed against residents and protestors successful narration to demonstrations held against roadworthy and port.
It has besides recommended to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to fortify regulatory oversight of the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority and State Coastal Zone Management Authority and make mechanisms for reappraisal and accountability successful cases wherever approvals are granted contempt statutory violations.
It added that the operation of breakwaters volition pb to the gradual erosion of the seashore itself. “The Sharavathi estuary is location to a assortment of fish, including prized estuarine species, and the formation serves arsenic a nesting crushed for the Olive Ridley Turtle, an endangered and protected taxon nether the Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972,” it said.
The study was released by biology activistic Medha Patkar, who besides met Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and urged him to revoke the project. “The archetypal and foremost question is whether this larboard task is being pushed guardant successful compliance with each kinds of laws whether they are onshore related laws oregon environmental-related laws the reply is no,” she said.
She added that clearances for the task person been attained not based connected facts but fake assessments.
“The Honnavar Port Project has been planned since 2010, and it is said to person received assorted kinds of clearances, which see biology clearance, clearance nether the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification. All these clearances are based connected facts but connected fake commitments and assessments,” she added.
