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Dharna to save fort continues

Staff Correspondent

Volunteers asked to ensure that remaining trees are not cut

SAVE TREES: Volunteers have put banners with "Nimma Usirigagi Nammannu Rakshishi" written on them on each tree in the Gandhada Koti.

HASSAN: Save Gandhada Koti action committee decided to continue their indefinite dharna till the Government announces that the fort will be preserved and a mini forest will be developed. The dharna entered second day on Tuesday.

Former City Municipal Corporation presidents Chennaveerappa and G.T. Kumar, former Hassan Urban Development Authority (HUDA) chairman B.K. Manjunath, environmentalist George, conveners of the joint action committee R.P. Venkatesh Murthy and Kishore Kumar also participated in the dharna.

President of Hemavathi Cauvery Horata Samiti Gururaj Hebbar who visited the fort suggested that the action committee meet Minister for Public Works and Energy H.D. Revanna who is also the Hassan District in-charge Minister to apprise him on the need for protecting the fort.

The action committee urged the volunteers to watch the fort day and night to ensure that the remaining trees were not cut.

Mr. Chennaveerappa felt that had the medical college and hospital built in the outskirts of the city in Hassan would have grown in that direction also. With the medical college and hospital located in the middle of the city, there was no scope for development and also the area would become congested.

Former Principal A.S. Kale Gowda had appealed to Mr. Revanna to save the century-old Gandhada Koti and not to convert it into a concrete jungle.

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