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Tourism will be promoted in Uttara Kannada: MP

By Our Correspondent

KARWAR, MAY 27. Anantkumar Hegde, who has been elected to the Lok Sabha from the Kanara segment, has said that any development plan for the constituency should take into account the local geographical and environmental factors and the living conditions of the people.

Addressing a press conference here recently, he said his first priority was to develop Uttara Kannada into an important tourist destination. Plans were afoot to develop a network of tourism centres in Uttara Kannada, Goa, and Hampi in Bellary district. This would be projected as a good tourism package to foreign tourists, he said.

He pointed out that the district, which was endowed with thick forests, had immense scope for the development of ecotourism.

The Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary, the Anashi National Park, the Attiveri Bird Sanctuary, and Yana could be promoted among foreign tourists, he said.

Industries that did not affect the lifestyle of the people of Uttara Kannada and its environment should be welcomed, Mr. Hegde said and added that infrastructure facilities for fisheries should be improved.

A survey of the coastal belt should be carried out to identify locations to build jetties, he said. He promised to make sincere attempts to revive the Bhagyalaxmi Sugar Factory at Khanapur.

Blaming the Krishna Government for the closure of the factory, he said he would work for the early commissioning of the Kalasa Bhandoori Nala.

He would continue to fight against the eviction of people who had developed paddy fields in forests, Mr. Hegde said.

Congress criticised

Mr. Hegde said the Congress, which had been rejected by the people of the State, had no moral right to form the Government in the State again.

He said it was shameful that the Congress had resorted to opportunistic politics to gain power much against the wishes of the people.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had emerged as the single largest party, should be invited to form the Government, he said.

He said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had accepted the people's verdict in all humility. Forming wrong alliances in some States was one of the reasons for the NDA's defeat, he said.

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