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The National Environment Care Federation (NECF), Mangaluru, has said tha the projected ‘Roll On- Roll Off service’ betwixt Hoige Bazar and Kuloor, arsenic portion of the ₹29 crore Development of Waterways connected Gurupura River task successful Mangaluru Taluk, is economically unviable.
In a memorandum submitted to Deputy Commissioner H.V. Darshan during the biology nationalist proceeding connected Thursday, NECF honorary-secretary Shashidhar Shetty said it was projected to person six trips each of 2 Ro-Ro vessels successful a time connected the route. A azygous travel from Hoige Bazar to Kuloor by stream was estimated to instrumentality 2 hours, portion the aforesaid travel by roadworthy volition instrumentality astir 25 minutes.
The substance depletion and fare for the Ro-Ro usage volition transcend the outgo of roadworthy travel. Vehicle owners volition not hold for hours for ferrying, loading and unloading. Hence it was economically unviable to person this service, Mr. Shetty said.
Instead of destroying the situation for this service, the nonsubjective of reducing postulation congestion tin beryllium achieved by relocating warehouses from the Port country to APMC Yard successful Baikampady, helium said.
Mr. Shetty said that the Port Department and Karnataka Maritime Board person not conducted a due survey and demarcation of larboard lands.
Encroachments connected larboard and riverbank should beryllium restored earlier immoderate caller task is taken up. Several mangroves and trees would beryllium destroyed owed to dredging, filling, and construction, which volition person irreversible biology consequences. The mandatory coastal regulatory portion clearance for the task has not been taken truthful far, helium said.
