Save Kabini panel seeks action against illegal constructions

Amid rising concerns implicit alleged amerciable resorts, homestays, hotels and different commercialized activities adjacent the Kabini backwaters and areas adjoining the Bandipur and Nagarahole forests — posing a menace to wildlife and escalating human-wildlife conflicts — the Save Kabini Committee has sought contiguous authorities involution by constituting a associated committee to look into the issue.

Warning of an indefinite agitation successful beforehand of the Regional Commissioner’s bureau from February 25 if its concerns stay unaddressed, the committee said it volition impact salient personalities who are supportive of protecting Kabini and the surrounding forests from what it termed “illegal commercialized activities”.

The committee has posed 8 cardinal questions to the Forest Department and different departments, seeking replies for the same. It has taken up the contented with the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife), the Regional Commissioner, Mysuru, and the managing manager of Cauvery Niravari Nigam Limited.

Save Kabini squad subordinate and advocator Ravikumar V., Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha person Honnuru Prakash, activistic Bhanu Mohan, and others addressed a property league present connected January 24 to item the issue. They demanded that the projected associated committee should relation transparently and see elder bureaucrats, territory officials, retired officials from the Forest, Irrigation and Environment departments, and representatives of the Save Kabini Committee.

They said the committee comprises organisations moving for the rights of farmers, Dalits, and workers, on with carnal and societal activists, writers, and artists.

Questioning the permissions granted for alleged constructions and commercialized activities successful delicate zones, the committee urged the associated assemblage to behaviour on-ground inspections of areas wherever amerciable constructions person travel up, analyse maps to place encroachments, and undertake a elaborate drone survey of the region.