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New Bus Depot at Kushalnagar & Virajpet. Appachu bats for separate Madikeri DivisionDecember 27th, 2011 by Staff Reporter Posted in Coorg NewsVirajpet MLA & Assembly Speaker K.G.Bopaiah informed that Karnataka State Transport Corporation has agreed for a new bus depot for Kushalnagar . While the Kushalnagar depot may see the light of the day soon, the earlier sanctioned depot at Virajpet will have a to wait due to a land dispute. Madikeri MLA Appachu Ranjan has demanded a separate division for Madikeri and a proposal for the same is with the state government. Madikeri is currently served by Puttur division. 3 Kids arrested for defiling Field Marshal’s statueDecember 1st, 2011 by Staff Reporter Posted in Coorg NewsThe police yesterday arrested 3 youngsters for defiling Field Marshal Cariappa’s statue on November 15. The police state that the youngsters were drunk and high on drugs while they did the act and the youngsters have said that they did it just as a mischief. Tags: Field Marshal Cariappa Statue, Madikeri CMC plans to increase water tax to Rs 90. Opposition against itNovember 23rd, 2011 by Staff Reporter Posted in Coorg NewsThe Madikeri CMC meeting yesterday saw opposition up in arms against the CMC’s move to increase the water tax from Rs. 45 to Rs.90. The opposition charged the move as burdening the common man with more when the CMC was not even capable of providing regular water supply in most of the areas. Madikeri is facing acute water shortage now and then. The CMC is banking on the Kunda Maistry Reservoir Project to be completed, to tide over the water crisis in future. Stating that they are increasing the water tax after a decades, CMC president Nandakumar said ” the people can afford the hike”. Tags: CMC, CMC President, Kunda Miastry Project, Nandakumar, Water tax High Court: Animals should live in their natural habitat and it is up to humans to adjustNovember 19th, 2011 by Tony Chengappa Posted in EnvironmentThe State Govt plan to mitigate the man-elephant by trans-locating the elephants from Coorg & Hassan to the forests near Bangalore has been turned down by the High Court. The high court said;
The Govt has been instructed to seek advise from experts in India & Africa before they plan for such an exercise. The past decade has seen a drastic rise in man-elephant conflict in Hassan & Coorg. Elephants entering farms and plantations has been a common sight in many parts of Coorg. Encroachment by humans of reserve forest, pysari land and revenue forest near their villages, which the elephants had been foraging for long, has only escalated the conflict. According to the last census 260 elephants were counted in Virajpet circle and 245 in Madikeri. Nagarhole National Park had a maximum of 792 elephants and a minimum of 443 elephants with a mean population of 617 elephants. Tags: Elephant Population in Coorg, Elephant translocation, High Court Judgement, Man-Animal Conflict, Man-Elephant Conflict, Nagarhole National Park The statue needs lighting and fencing, not police protection: Air Marshal CariappaNovember 18th, 2011 by Staff Reporter Posted in Coorg NewsField Marshal’s son Air Marshal(Retd) K.C. Cariappa opined that the statue of Field Marshal Cariappa requires more lighting around the area and the place needs to be fenced off, instead of deploying police staff to protect it. Speaking to Indian Express he said that though the Field Marshal’s statue is found in other parts of India also, no such incident has ever taken place, adding that it was painful for him see such an act against a person considered as the Father of Indian Army. Tags: Air Marshal K C Cariappa, Field Marshal Cariappa, Madikeri Images: Coorgs in bangalore protest the desecration of Field Marshal Cariappa’s statueNovember 17th, 2011 by Staff Reporter Posted in Coorg News
Images Courtesy: Mohan Devaiah Tags: Bangalore, Coorg Protests, M G Road Field Marshal Cariappa’s Statue defiled, Protests in CoorgNovember 16th, 2011 by Staff Reporter Posted in Coorg NewsMiscreants defiled the statue of Late Field Marshal Cariappa at Madikeri yesterday by hanging a shoe on the left hand. Police is suspecting it to be a work of a mentally deranged person or a drunkard. Angry residents have complained the police and they are searching for the miscreant. A bundh has been called today to protest the act.
Tags: Bundh, Field Marshal Cariappa Zilla Panchayat opposes eco-sensitive zones around Nagarhole. Wondering why.November 10th, 2011 by Tony Chengappa Posted in Coorg News, EnvironmentRead in TOI that Kodagu ZP “has passed a resolution and sent it to the ministry opposing the creation of zones around Nagarahole National Park”. Even the Gundlupet MLA, under whose writ the Bandipur National Park falls has written to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, against the proposal which the govt is planning to enforce. Both say the “villagers will face hardships” if the zone comes into place. What is all this eco-sensitive zones about ? There are 2 kinds of Zone, Zone I & Zone II which are being created around the buffer zone of the National Parks.
To me it seems a very novel idea to fix the man-animal conflict that has been troubling coorg lately. But the ZP thinks otherwise. There is nothing that says agriculture will be banned in the zones. But still ZP is crying foul. Knew about the timer lobby in existence in Coorg, time to welcome the “Mining” & ”Tourism Lobby” ? Tags: Nagarhole National Park, Tourism Lobby, Zilla Panchayat Tourism Lobby vs TigersNovember 9th, 2011 by Staff Reporter Posted in Eco-Tourism, EnvironmentCourtesy: CNN-IBN ( Pl allow sometime for the video to load) Tags: Nagarhole National Park, Tigers, Tourism Karnataka Planters Association: We are in distressNovember 9th, 2011 by Staff Reporter Posted in Agriculture, Coorg NewsAccording to the report in The Hindu, KPA Chairman, Sahadev Balakrishna rued that the coffee plantation sector is “facing shortage fertiliser, rising cost of labour, impending strain on water resources, environmental and quality concerns and a need to replant old plantations.” Adding further he said ” “We have been going through a difficult phase with heavy unserviceable debts, rampant pests and diseases such as coffee berry borer, white stem borer and leaf rust, shortage and high cost of fertilisers and high input costs, unpredictable weather conditions; all of which have resulted in significant crop loss,”. KPA requested the Central Government & Coffee Board with assisting in Replanting costs, Mechanization of Plantations due to labor shortage and sharing the social costs involved in Plantations. Tags: Coffee Board, Karnataka Planters Association, Sahadev Balakrishna
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