Mangaluru, Jan 8: The district unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has urged the state government to wake up from its slumber and take effective measures to prepare a comprehensive report after conducting a physical study of the areas affected by the implementation of the Kasturirangan report on the conservation of the Western Ghats in Karnataka, while taking the locals' problems into consideration.
Addressing mediapersons at a press conference here on Thursday, BJP district president Pratap Simha Nayak said that the two teams formed by the state government to carry out a field visit to the areas affected by the implementation of the Kasturirangan report should conduct a physical survey and not a dramatic one. The actual situation and the locals' problems should be considered before classifying the area as ecologically sensitive area (ESA). The teams should conduct village-level meetings with local governing bodies and villagers to clarify the confusion among the locals in the affected areas, he stressed, adding that there was lot of anxiety among villagers in affected areas due to lack of information.
œIt is the responsibility of the state government to determine ecologically sensitive areas as per the Kasturirnagan report following the exclusion of human settlements, plantations and agricultural land, he said, urging the government to take the 2011 census into consideration while determining areas of human settlements.
He also urged that the state government should make public the timetable according to which the teams would conduct field visits to affected areas in various districts in the state.
He also urged that the state government should give special attention to Dakshina Kannada in view of the scarcity of drinking water in the district as well as the movement of vehicular traffic in Charmadi Ghat route.
BJP district general secretary Kishore Rai, state backward classes morcha vice-president Nithin Kumar and Ravi Shankar Mijar were present among others.
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