Nandi hills to be turned into SEZ..

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Heard this news .... Exact location details are to be confirmed....


Roopak




The whole Nandi Hills area including the three adjoining Hills (Bramhagiri, Chennagiri and the Skandagiri) will get engulphed by the newly proposed IT-BT Park! .Recently received final approval and development is underway. 10,000+ acre region. Set to have an initial investment of 100,000 crores (US $22 billion). Set to employ over 1.2 million people directly and over 3 million people indirectly. SEZ will be operational in mid-2010. Located 15 km north of Devanahalli city limits, at the Nandi and Skandagiri foothills near Muddenahalli/ Kanivenarayanapu ra/Chikkaballapur".


http://www.thehindu.com/2010/02/05/s...0553730500.htm

http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report...ahalli_1310504

[Lakshminarayanan Nataraja]

Very unfortunate.

We have been constantly and rapidly loosing our forests and cultivable lands.

How these pockets of lovely wilderness will thrive when even renowned forest lands like W.Ghats, Himalaya etc suffer without people to save ??

India is going to pay a very heavy price in near future for all these short-sighted development projects at the cost of irreplacable pristine nature.

On the subject issue, am perplexed.

Bangalore is not only IT hub. Scores of wildlife photographers, bird watchers, trekkers, biologists reside there.

Why there is no collective repsentation from these people to save the wildland in their back yard ???

The sour fact is, with consistent depletion of forest cover, soon the wildlife photographers and biologists will loose their "jobs" if they don't raise voice against these muddle headed developments.