Despite protests from envi- ronmentalists, the Karnataka state government has decided to go ahead with drawing of a 400 kV power line from My- sore to Kozhikode via Kodagu, to evacuate power from Kaiga nuclear plant, near Karwar.
A report of the technicalcommittee set up by the state government to review suggestions on an alternative route for Mysore-Kozhikode for laying the line by the Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL), said no other alternative route was viable for drawing the transmission line. Of the 210-km transmission line, work has been completed in a stretch of 155-km (92 km in Kerala and 63 km in Karnataka). The remaining 54.5-km line needs to be drawn in Kodagu, through 38 km of paddy fields and across 12 km of coffee plantations, while works covering a distance of 4.5 km in reserve forests in Virajpet, Madikeri and Hunsur had been completed.
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