The Karnataka government has decided to constitute an expert committee to study the Power Grid Corporation of India’s controversial project to draw a 400-kV power line from Yelwal in Mysore to Kasargod in Kerala via Kodagu.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by chief minister Siddaramaiah and attended by public representatives from Kodagu, environmentalists and officials.
People of Kodagu were against the project as they said it would mean cutting down of as many as 50,000 trees, affecting the ecology and increasing man-animal conflict. However, the work on the 55-km stretch in Coorg had begun with police protection.
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