GAIL Pipeline: Villagers urge CT Ravi to intervene

August 14, 2012

Mangalore, August 14: Villagers of areas in the district being affected by the planned Cochin-Mangalore gas pipeline project of GAIL India submitted an appeal to C T Ravi, district in charge minister of the district in the city on Tuesday asking him to see that villagers do not lose their lands.

Villagers of Balepuni, Kairangala, Pajeeru, and Karnadu villages of Bantwal Taluk, under the banner of Cochin-Mangalore Gas Pipeline Victims' Struggle Committee staged a protest outside the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat where the minister was scheduled to chair a meeting.

Later, representatives of the committee submitted an appeal to Mr. Ravi seeking his intervention into the matter.

The villagers complain that officials of GAIL India are laying the pipeline along the lands belonging to them without prior intimation. They also have concerns that the project if implemented would cause environmental hazards in the area.

Mr. Ravi on the other hand assured that no project would be implemented without informing the farmers and the villagers.

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Following the incident, Prameela lodged a complaint with the Shirva police, who have since registered a case under sections 316(2), 318(4), 351(2) of the BNS, and 66(C), 66(D) of the IT Act. The authorities are now investigating this alarming case of digital fraud.

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