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The Save North Karnataka Citizens Alliance has released a study connected the Mahadayi basin projects, saying allowing stream diversion schemes successful the portion could harm the Western Ghats and pb to drying up of rivers successful northbound Karnataka.
In a broad study connected Bandura Nala Mahadayi stream diversion task and the desertification of bluish Karnataka, members of implicit 30 organisations and 60 individuals, that see environmentalists, societal activists, retired officials, and writers, person cautioned against stream diversion projects. They said that specified projects could adust up bluish Karnataka region. They person urged a concerted efforts to support Western Ghats and its rivers.
“This study is for the payment of policy-makers, administrators, elected representatives, socio-cultural assemblage heads, grassroots influencers, members of task affected communities, bureaucrats and wide public. Most importantly, it is for the radical of Belagavi, Bagalkot, Hubballi-Dharwad and Gadag districts,” Nitin Dhond, environmentalist and subordinate of the confederation told The Hindu.
This study deals specifically with the Bhandura Nala Diversion Project and its ecological, economic, socio-cultural, legal, technological and method aspects. The investigation categorically points retired that the task is untenable successful the agelong term. Additionally, it opens up superior possibilities of advancing the desertification process of northbound Karnataka portion arsenic good arsenic the Malaprabha Basin, helium said.
The Mahadayi River Diversion Project is aimed astatine replenishing the shortage successful stream Malaprabha done inter-basin transfer. It is located successful the Western Ghats wood of Khanapur taluk successful Belagavi District. The cultivation assemblage astatine the tail-end of the near slope canal of Navliuteertha Dam connected the Malaprabha views the stream diversion arsenic an reply to their irrigation needs. For the easiness of obtaining indispensable compliance, Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Ltd (KNNL), the task execution agency, portrays it arsenic a drinking h2o project. However, its implementation has remained indecisive for the past 2 and fractional decades, the study said.
In the caller Detailed Project Report (DPR), the task is presented arsenic 2 abstracted smaller projects: the Kalasa — Haltara diversion task (1.72 tmcft) astatine Choria and Kankumbi villages; and the Bhandura Nala Diversion Project (2.18 tmcft) astatine Nersa Village. Both are headwater spring-streams of the Mahadayi, originating successful the vicinity of Bhimgad WLS and Mhadei WLS successful the Eco Sensitive Zone I of the Western Ghats. These sanctuaries and their adjacent contiguous forests find their spot successful the WGEEP and HLWG reports of Madhav Gadgil and precocious Kasturirangan respectively, for their ecological sensitivity.
The study besides attempts to supply alternatives that are astir outgo effectual and beneficial to sustaining the stream systems. These stream systems are the backbone of agriculture further downstream successful the Malaprabha basin, the northbound Karnataka region, and beyond. In the caller months the concerns of section nonmigratory communities of villages adjacent the projected task tract are palpable arsenic determination is simply a Gazette Notification nether the seal of the Governor of Karnataka for onshore acquisition of their productive cultivation lands.
Residents of Hubballi-Dharwad-Belagavi-Khanapur areas person contributed to the report. It represents the dependable of nonmigratory communities of the Bhimgad portion arsenic good arsenic concerns voiced by radical of the affected regions.
The authors of the study person relied heavy connected technological and probe documents and publications of IISc, ATREE, KSNDMA, NIH, ISRO, IMD and different studies.
Members person been distributing copies of the reports to elder officials successful the State authorities and territory medication and the ineligible enactment squad of Karnataka that is engaged successful tribunal battles implicit the projects.
