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Farmers person opposed the operation of a caller planetary cricket stadium astatine Suryanagar 4th Phase successful Anekal taluk, connected the southeastern outskirts of Bengaluru.
The stadium, with a seating capableness of 80,000, is billed to beryllium the second-largest cricket stadium successful the state erstwhile completed and is projected to beryllium built astatine an estimated outgo of ₹943.46 crore connected 70 acres of onshore belonging to the Karnataka Housing Board.
Local farmers person opposed the project, stating that it could beryllium developed astatine a region of conscionable 1.5 km from the Bannerghatta National Park (BNP) and that it lies successful proximity to the Karadikkal-Mahadeshwara wildlife corridor.
At a property league connected Tuesday, section farmers said that gathering a immense stadium successful this country volition person a superior and adverse interaction connected the situation and wildlife.
“It is hard to ideate what benignant of adverse interaction a immense stadium with a seating capableness of 80,000 spectators would person connected the environment. The stadium’s monolithic floodlights, cheering of spectators during the matches, the postulation congestion and commercialisation volition lone summation the human-animal conflict,” the farmers said.
They besides highlighted the Supreme Court constituted Central Empowered Committee report, which has recommended restoring a 2016 draught notification and cancelling the 2020 notification, which reduces the Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) astir the BNP.
According to this report, the ESZ initially projected astir BNP successful the draught notification dated June 15, 2016, covering an country of 268.96 sq. km, was reduced to 181.57 sq. km and thereafter to 168.84 sq. km successful the last notification dated March 11, 2020.
Members of the Karnataka Rasthra Samithi Party who are supporting the farmers questioned whether an Environmental Impact Assessment has been done for the project.
Raghu Janagere from the enactment alleged that a Cabinet Minister successful the State authorities and a legislator person illegally acquired immense tracts of onshore astir BNP and that the stadium is being built to summation their onshore value.
He added that a Special Investigation Team should beryllium formed to probe into these allegations.
