Bantwal, Jan 15, 2014: The Karavali Jeevanadi Netravathi Rakshana Samithi performed a ‘Nadi Pooja’ ritual to Netravathi river at Bantwal and vowed that it would fight until the government decided to drop the controversial Yettinahole project aimed at diverting Netravathi River.
The rituals were offered under the leadership of Sri Vidya Prasanna Theertha Swamiji of Sri Subrahmanya Mutt. In his address, the seer said projects involving diversion of rivers would be disastrous and urged the government to shelve the project which, he said was only snatching the rights of the people of the region.
Vijaykumar Shetty, former MLA of Suratkal who was instrumental in organising this novel protest in his address, hoped the Chief minister would keep up his promise of convening a meeting of officials and experts to discuss the pros and cons of the project.
Prof. SG Mayya, Professor in NITK, said the implementation of the project would be a wasteful exercise. As against the estimated cost of Rs 8,660 the project cost may exceed Rs 18000 crore when completed, he said.
MG Hegde, social activist and several others were present.
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KRPrabhu, Bangalore | Wed, January-15-2014, 12:32 |
Politicians like Vijaya Kumar Shetty,M.G.Hegde should not be allowed to sneak into the movement.Let it be peoples movement.None of the politicians of DK are trustworthy.They are ready to sell Nethravathi any one who benifits them.Let te people of Mangalore make this issto ue an election issue.True color will be known only then. |