The standing committee of the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) has rejected the proposal of the Karnataka Road Development Corporation Limited (KRDCL) to build a concrete road to Kodachadri hills cutting through Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary.
A senior official from the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) confirmed that the NBWL in its 67th meeting, which was held last week, discussed the feasibility of the project and decided that the path will not be concretised but a mud road will be allowed instead.
The KRDCL had sought the diversion of 5.50 hectare of forest land and 0.0676 hectare of non-forest land for the “improvement of mud road to cement-concrete road from Kattinahole to Kodachadri hill top and Chakra forest”.
