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Environmentalists to take out padayatra against hydel projects

Staff Correspondent

`The schemes will affect the bio-diversity of Western Ghats'

HASSAN: Protesting against the decision of the State Government to implement Gundia hydro electrical project and permitting more than 10 private companies to commission mini hydel projects in Western Ghats region, the Malenadu Janapara Horata Samiti (MJHS) will be holding a four-day "padayatra" from Hongadahalla to Hettur from Monday.

Samiti president Kishor Kumar told presspersons that hundreds of activists, including those belonging to Vriksha Laksha Andolana (Shimoga), Samagra Vikasa Vedike (Bangalore), Vanya Jeevi Sangha (Hassan), Janamukhi Sanghatane (Bangalore), Cauvery Sene (Kodagu), Samvada (Bangalore), Zilla Vijnana Kendra (Hassan), and Paschima

Creating awareness

Ghatta Ulisi Andolana, would participate in the "padayatra", which had been organised to create awareness among the villagers on the impact of Gundia power project and minihydel projects.

Vidya Prasanna Theertha Swamiji of Subramanya Math will lead the padayatra, he added.

The implementation of the schemes would affect the bio-diversity in Western Ghats. These projects would harm wildlife to a great extent.

He said that, the "padayatra" had been organised to urge the State Government to drop the idea of implementing the hydel projects and save the invaluable flora and fauna of the Western Ghats, which would face danger, because of human interference, he said.

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