NewsKarnataka – Mangalore

Mangalore : Save Netravathi activists under the aegis of the Sahyadri Samrakshana Sanchaya  celebrated World Environment Day by organising a unique programme called ‘Bella –Baajel’ (Jaggery-Water) at Hampankatta in the city on Thursday June 5 with a call to Save Netravathi.

The speakers at the function  while highlighting the vital role which River Netravathi, the lifeline of the region plays, lashed out at the government for trying to  render the district barren through the Yettinahole Project. The project if implemented will also lead to extinction of the precious bio-diversity  of the Western Ghats, apart from destruction of forests, they said and urged the MLAs, MPs and minsters of the region to pressurise the government to drop the project.

Dinesh Holla of Sahyadri Samrakshana Sanchaya, Kateel Dinesh Pai, Suresh Shetty, Ashok Bhat, Chandrakala Nandavar and others were  present.