Tag: K.C. Biddappa

‘Constitute Expert Committee for out-of-the-box solutions’
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‘Constitute Expert Committee for out-of-the-box solutions’

September 1, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: In a letter to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, K.C. Biddappa, Senior Vice-President, ITC Ltd., (retd.) and Past President of Coorg Wildlife Society, has said that though the Forest Department is trying to control elephant menace through solar fencing and Railway track barricades, they have proved ineffective. “Proper fencing like tentacle fencing, radio collaring, clearing…

Bad roads to Kodagu, a tourist hotspot
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Bad roads to Kodagu, a tourist hotspot

December 28, 2020

District Administration urged to wake up from slumber Mysore/Mysuru: Major roads of Kodagu are in a pathetic condition and need urgent repairs. The situation is worse in South Kodagu and the roads that connect Mysuru to Kerala via Kodagu are full of craters and are impossible to travel with chances of vehicles breaking down high. …

Letter to PM to end elephant menace in Kodagu as killings rise
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Letter to PM to end elephant menace in Kodagu as killings rise

August 25, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: With wild elephant menace continuing to cause havoc across Kodagu district, the Mysore City Pensioners Association has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Aug. 24, 2020 to address Man-Animal Conflict (with focus on elephants) issues at the earliest and thus save innocent lives. Association President K.C. Biddappa said that he, also as the…

‘Do not allow conversion of wetlands for commercial purposes in Kodagu’
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‘Do not allow conversion of wetlands for commercial purposes in Kodagu’

June 10, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysore City Pensioners Association has urged the Kodagu Deputy Commissioner (DC) not to accord approval or No Objection Certificate (NOC) for conversion of wetlands/paddy lands for commercial purposes, housing colonies and layouts to  protect the fragile ecosystem of Kodagu that was ravaged by two years of back-to-back floods and landslides. In a letter…

Resigns as President of Coorg Wildlife Society
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Resigns as President of Coorg Wildlife Society

September 6, 2019

Mysuru:  K.C. Biddappa, President of Coorg Wildlife Society, has resigned from the post citing health issues. During his short tenure, he took up important issues like resolving Man-animal conflict; Opposing four-laning of NH-275 and Railway projects in Kodagu  through a petition to the Prime Minister, Union Ministers and Senior Officials concerned eliciting positive response from…

Opposition to widen NH-275 from Kushalnagar grows
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Opposition to widen NH-275 from Kushalnagar grows

August 8, 2019

Coorg Wildlife Society President writes to Kodagu Deputy Commissioner highlighting destructive nature of the Project Mysuru: Continuing his efforts to stall the proposed widening of National Highway (NH) 275, Coorg Wildlife Society President K.C. Biddappa has written a letter to Deputy Commissioner of Kodagu opposing the project as it will bring untold miseries to the…

Hon. Wildlife Warden  calls on Kodagu elephant attack victim
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Hon. Wildlife Warden calls on Kodagu elephant attack victim

August 5, 2019

Mysuru: K.C. Biddappa, President, Coorg Wildlife Society (CWS) and Hon. Wildlife Warden of Kodagu District, visited Apollo BGS Hospital in city recently, to enquire about the health condition  of Kavitha, a victim of an elephant attack in Valnur village, Kodagu. She had suffered multiple injuries and has recovered.  Biddappa, who spoke to the duty doctors…

Restrict Kushalnagar-Sampaje to a two-lane Highway
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Restrict Kushalnagar-Sampaje to a two-lane Highway

July 6, 2019

Coorg Wildlife Society President writes to MP Pratap Simha not to widen NH-275 into four-lane in Kodagu Mysuru: The project to widen a section of NH-275 connecting Bengaluru, the commercial capital of Karnataka and Mysuru, the cultural capital, linking it with Mangaluru, Kodagu and parts of Kerala, has received criticism as critics feel that the…

‘Highway expansion will lead to ecological disaster’
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‘Highway expansion will lead to ecological disaster’

July 6, 2019

Mysuru: The President of Coorg Wildlife Society K.C. Biddappa has also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister for Transport Nitin Gadkari, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, Cabinet Secretary P.K. Sinha, Principal Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office Nripendra Misra and Karnataka Chief Secretary Vijay Bhaskar requesting them to prevent the proposed widening of the existing two-lane…

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