Former Minister K.S. Eshwarappa to join protest against Sharavati Pumped Storage project in Shivamogga on February 12

Terming the Sharavati Pumped Storage Project (PSP) a strategy to loot money, erstwhile curate K.S. Eshwarappa stated that Rashtrabhaktara Balaga, nether his leadership, would research ineligible avenues to guarantee that the task is not implemented.

Addressing a property league successful Shivamogga connected February 10, Mr. Eshwarappa stated that the task would harm the biodiversity hotspot of the Western Ghats, arsenic its implementation includes blast activities utilizing immense amounts of explosives. The authorities of Karnataka had not responded to the objections raised by experts and environmentalists regarding the project. He stated that chaotic animals and birds would beryllium severely impacted by the powerfulness project.”

The erstwhile curate said that Rashtrabhaktara Balaga, the forum helium launched aft being expelled from the BJP, had joined those opposing the project. The forum would actively enactment successful the protestation march convened by Parisarakkagi Naavu, an biology organisation, connected February 12 successful Shivamogga.

He stated that helium would effort to enactment unit connected the Central Government not to assistance clearance for the task by gathering Union Ministers H.D. Kumaraswamy and Pralhad Joshi. “If necessary, we volition besides determination tribunal to reason the task aft consulting with experts connected the issue,” helium said.

Prof. B.M. Kumaraswamy, an environmentalist, said that environmentalists from antithetic parts of Karnataka would instrumentality portion successful the protestation march that would statesman astatine Sheenappa Shetty Circle (Gopi Circle). The participants would march to the bureau of the Deputy Commissioner.

“The Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) has projected the task astatine the halfway of the Lion-Tailed Macaque Sanctuary, violating the Wildlife Act of 1972. More than 16,000 trees person been identified for felling for the project. We indispensable reason the task and guarantee that it is not implemented,” helium said.

L.K. Sripathi, a retired prof of an engineering college, stated that the task would interaction forests and the travel of water, affecting aquatic life. “When determination are amended and alternate technologies to conscionable vigor requirements, wherefore should KPCL prosecute this project, which pollutes the environment?”