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Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd. (KPCL) on Friday assured the High Court of Karnataka that it might not proceed until Monday the survey and geotechnical work undertaken at Sharavathi Valley Lion-Tailed Macaque Sanctuary for a 2,000-MW underground pump storage hydro-electric venture.
The assurance was given earlier than a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Ashok S. Kinagi after the Bench stated it may need to remain the work because the data exhibiting that the federal government had consulted the State Wildlife Board earlier than the Chief Wildlife Warden granted permission below Section 29 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act weren’t forthcoming from the doc produced in court docket.
The advocate showing for KPCL assured the court docket that the work of drilling boreholes wouldn’t be continued until Monday, and that the paperwork associated to the State authorities’s appraisal of the work to be undertaken for survey and geotechnical investigation would submitted by Monday, the following date of listening to.
The Bench was listening to petitions filed by Edward Santosh Martin, a Ballari-based conservationist, and United Conservation Movement Charitable and Welfare Trust, Bengaluru. The petitioners had questioned the legality of finishing up work inside be protected sanctuary whereas alleging that environmental legal guidelines had been being violated in finishing up the work.
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