Mandya: Pressing for a permanent ban on mining and stone quarrying in and around the villages surrounding Krishna Raja Sagar Dam in Mandya, many organisations have called for Mandya bandh on July 29.
The bandh has been called to protect the interests of River Cauvery and the Dam which stores its water – a lifeline of the people of Mandya.
The bandh has been supported by Raitha Sangha, Karunada Sevakara Sanghatane, Auto Drivers Association, Jaya Karnataka, Bharatiya Samvidhana Hitharakshana Vedike, Sugarcane Growers Association, Vokkaligara Seva Trust and Dalita Sangarsh Samiti (Krishnappa faction).
At a meeting called in Mandya last evening, the activists said that the State Government must immediately and permanently ban mining and stone quarrying in 20 kilometres radius around KRS as continuous blasting for stones is causing grave danger to the structure.
Farmers and various associations have been demanding a ban on stone quarrying and use of explosives within a 20 km-radius of the Dam. There are over 80 stone quarrying units, a majority of them owned by politicians in Srirangapatna and Pandavapura taluks. Most of the operators use high-intensity explosives to extract stones. This has been causing tremors and loud sounds near KRS Dam.
The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) had submitted a report to the Mandya District Administration with suggestions to prevent the use of high-density explosive substances. “Despite scientific evidence, the State Government is dilly-dallying on the issue and is not committing itself for a permanent ban. Political pressure is being exerted on the Government by powerful lobbies in favour of mining,” they alleged.
The activists said that the agitation against mining will be extended to Bengaluru to draw the attention of policy-makers. Kempugowda of Rajya Raitha Sangha, Shambhunalli Suresh, Kallahalli Ravindra, M.B. Krishna, Nagannagowda, Prof. Hulkere Mahadeva, Naganna Banaswadi, Latha Shankar and others were present.
The govt must stop this quarrying immediately. The blasting at these quarry sites are capable of structurally weakening the KRS dam and other ecological damages in the reservoir area.
“There are over 80 stone quarrying units, a majority of them owned by politicians in Srirangapatna and Pandavapura taluks”
This is corrupt India, after independence. All these politicians and people in India care is money, sending their children to study and work in the US and get treatment for themselves there.
Wonderful achievements by independent India, which is institutionally corrupt country.
Hence, Modi, do not boast about India, You have not stopped corruption in politics.,
Mandy a is the citadel of Gowdas. Its MP was S M Krishna , who laid the foundation of Gowdara Samrajya in Karnataka, on the top of the plan that Shankara Gowda had for Mandya to build a Gowda empire. Every business is owned by Gowdas in Mand=ya, and their dirty hands are on every companies that operate in Mandya. These Gowdas have their despicable God Father in Deve Gowda, and do not forget that even if the central minisiter Sadananda Gowda is BJP, he is after all a Gowda, and works with Deve Gowda and with all Gowdas in every political party.
In Karanataka, Gowdas, Gowdas every where, all of them are corrupt, not one of them is honest.
Typos corrected:
Mandya is the citadel of Gowdas. Its MP was S M Krishna , who laid the foundation of Gowdara Samrajya in Karnataka, on the top of the plan that Shankara Gowda had for Mandya to build a Gowda empire. Every business is owned by Gowdas in Mandya, and their dirty hands are on every companies that operate in Mandya.
These Gowdas have their despicable God Father in Deve Gowda, and do not forget that even if the central minister Sadananda Gowda is BJP, he is after all a Gowda, and works with Deve Gowda and with all Gowdas in every political party.
In Karanataka, Gowdas, Gowdas every where, all of them are corrupt, not one of them is honest, and came up on merit alone.
REPLY
The wife of that cine actor, Malavalli Huchche Gowda Amarnath, who called himself, Ambarish, who was elected on the strength that her husband was a Gowda and hence got votes from the massive Gowda community in Mandya, I suppose, has links with these politicians, who certainly are Gowdas, and hence is not interested in leading this Bandh.
Stopping this quarrying run by business owned by Gowdas in Mandya?
One may have a better chance instead in stopping Sun rising from the East on the Sky!