Despite protests by farmers and local pepople, the State Government has decided to go ahead with the thermal power project at Chamalapura in Mysore district.Minister for Energy and Public Works H.D. Revanna told presspersons on Saturday that Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd. (KPCL) has been asked to conduct the feasibility study on the proposed project. The Government would take the people and farmers of Chamalapura into confidence before the commencement of the work on the project conceived in 1995.
Unfazed by the public protests and criticism against the negative fallout of the coal-fired thermal plant, he said the State was facing severe shortage of power and there was demand for power from industrialists and farmers. The Government had decided to implement three thermal power projects of 1,000 MW each in Gulbarga, Belgaum and Chamalapura. The detailed project report of the Chamalapura project would be ready in the next two weeks, he said. However, farmers and local community of Chamalapura had launched the protest against the project to get it disbanded. About 3,000 acres of land would be required to set up the plant.
(The Hindu, 9th September 2007)
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