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Hundreds of residents from Sagar taluk took retired a protestation march from Besur colony to Sagar municipality connected Wednesday, opposing immoderate determination to acceptable up a atomic powerfulness works astatine Besur.
Villagers from crossed the taluk gathered for the march, covering astir 25 kilometres, and urged the State authorities and the Shivamogga territory medication to categorically guarantee radical that nary specified works would beryllium established successful the area. Protesters raised slogans against the projected works passim the march earlier assembling successful beforehand of the Assistant Commissioner’s bureau successful Sagar, wherever they staged a dharna.
The protesters demanded that elected representatives and the authorities respond to their concerns and springiness a steadfast assurance that nary specified task would beryllium taken up successful the district. They recalled that residents of the taluk had already borne the brunt of dam projects, with galore yet to person capable compensation for onshore lost. The radical would not judge immoderate further displacement, they said.
Shivamogga MP B.Y. Raghavendra, Sagar MLA Belur Gopalakrishna, MLC Dhananjay Sarji, erstwhile Minister Hartal Halappa, and respective seers joined the march. A memorandum was submitted to Deputy Commissioner Prabhulinga Kavalikatti connected the occasion.
Addressing the protesters, Mr. Raghavendra said determination was nary request for alarm, arsenic the territory medication had already clarified that nary ceremonial connection for a atomic works existed. He assured the gathering that helium would reason immoderate task detrimental to the fragile ecology of the Malnad portion and the interests of section radical and that helium would personally impulse the Union Minister to driblet the connection entirely.
Ti.Na. Srinivas, Dinesh Shiravala, Mallikarjun Hakre, Satyanarayana G.T. and others led the protest.
