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Former curate K.S. Eshwarappa has questioned the projected sojourn by the Central Empowerment Committee (CEC) to the Sharavati Pumped Storage Project tract successful Shivamogga territory for an inspection contempt the High Court of Karnataka ordering the authorities to halt work.
Speaking astatine a property league successful Shivamogga connected June 1, Mr. Eshwarappa pointed retired that the task had been opposed by hundreds of people, and that a elder Forest Department official, Praneetha Paul, successful her tract inspection report, recommended against implementing it. He noted that an adept committee appointed by the National Board for Wildlife, listed the extended harm the task could origin to the pristine and ecologically delicate ecosystem of the Western Ghats, further questioning the necessity of the CEC’s sojourn astatine this stage.
The CEC is scheduled to sojourn the bureau of the Chief Conservator of Forests, Shivamogga, connected June 2. Members of the Rashtra Bhakthara Balaga, and section environmentalists volition conscionable the CEC delegation, and question the rationale down the sojourn erstwhile the HC has stayed the project, said Mr. Eshwarappa.
He stated that his forum would besides reason the Varahi Pumped Storage Project, which had precocious been cleared by the State Wildlife Board, calling it different menace to the region’s fragile ecology. “We volition guarantee that some projects are not implemented. We volition proceed our efforts to safeguard the Western Ghats from immoderate task that would harm its delicate ecosystem,” helium said.
