Last resort
exhausting all means to stop the proposed coal-based thermal power plant in Udupi district of Karnataka, the Janajagrithi Samiti, a Nandikur-based voluntary organisation, has filed a public interest petition in the Karnataka High Court.
The petition cites illegalities on part of authorities like Karnataka State Pollution Control Board in clearing the project. The setting up of the Nagarjuna Power Corporation Ltd (npcl) in Udupi will destroy the local ecology and hit the livelihood of local villagers, claim petitioners (See
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