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The members of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Harisu Sene connected Tuesday staged a protestation successful Shivamogga opposing the Sharavathi Pumped Storage Project and urged the State authorities to driblet the aforesaid successful the involvement of the Western Ghats and its affluent biodiversity.
The farmers, nether the enactment of KRRS authorities president K.T. Gangadhar, staged a dharna successful beforehand of the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau and submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner.
The protesters stated that the authorities should person taken the section nationalist into assurance earlier taking up the project. The authorities person not yet placed the elaborate task study earlier the public, they said. When determination were different alternate precocious technologies disposable to make powerfulness without damaging the wood and disturbing the wildlife, determination was nary request to spell for the project, they added.
Further, the farmers maintained that the task would necessitate cutting down a ample fig of trees. Implementing specified immense projects successful the forestland would effect successful landslips during rains, they stated. Considering the information of the section radical and the value of conserving section flora and fauna, the task should not beryllium implemented, they demanded.
KRRS territory president Yashwanth Rao Ghorpade and others were present.
