SW Railway s track doubling in Goa-K taka not justified: SC committee
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Panaji, April 26 : The Supreme Court s Central Empowered Committee (CEC), which had been appointed to examine three inter-state projects along the Goa-Karnataka border, has recommended a host of alterations to the ongoing road, rail and power projects, while also singling out South Western Railway s track doubling project from Castle Rock in Karnataka to Tinaighat in Goa, saying there is no justification for the expansion.
The report of the committee, which has been submitted to the apex court, has also called for re-alignment of the Goa Tanmar Transmission Project Ltd. and widening of animal corridors along the NH-4 which is the process of being four-laned.
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The ‘Save Mollem’ campaign has drawn in everyone from celebrities to politicians, protesting the lack of assessment of the threats posed by three proposed infrastructure projects
The dense evergreen and semi-evergreen forests of Mollem at the edge of the Western Ghats, 60 km from Goa’s capital Panaji, support thousands of indigenous people and abound with a huge diversity of wildlife: tigers, leopards, gaur, and over 200 species of birds. They also happen to be the site of three proposed infrastructure projects a highway expansion, the double-tracking of a railway line, and a power transmission line which if initiated could mean the felling of over 30,000 trees, irreversibly impacting this rich ecosystem.