Summary:
“More than 300 multinational companies, 600 industries and thousands of hotels in Bengaluru and Mysuru depend on River Cauvery. People of Kodagu fear that the rail project could result in the River Cauvery , considered sacred to the Kodavas , going dry.Colonel (Retd.) More than 60,000 trees were cut for the Mysuru-Kozhikode high tension wire project, and this railway line will result in another two to three lakh trees being felled. Muthanna, who has been at the forefront of the protest against the project, said, “River Cauvery, which flows across a length of 800km, is not joining the sea the way it used to near Tamil Nadu. We need to remember over 40% of the crops failed in the state due to scarcity of water..