Several prominent citizens, most of them retired higher officials of the state government, are opposing the formation of the four-lane Mysuru-Madikeri National Highway 275, in the present form, as it affects the ecology, including Ranganathittu bird sanctuary in Srirangapatna, Mandya district.
Retired Additional Deputy Commissioner H T Chandrasekhar, one of the signatories of the petition to the Chief Engineer of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), said, “The proposed project will cause extensive and irreparable damage to the agricultural fields in Mandya and Mysuru districts, Western Ghats of Kodagu district, i.e., ranges of Bramhagiri and Pushpagiri hills, which have been declared as one of the ‘World Heritage Rain Forests’.”
