Tapal Ganesh, mine owner and activist, at a press conference in Ballari on Monday.
Taking exception to the way the survey work was going on to demarcate the Karnataka – Andhra Pradesh border in Ballari district, Tapal Ganesh, a mine owner and activist, alleged that the officials of the Survey of India, which had taken up the job as per Supreme Court direction, were working under the pressure of political heavyweights.
At a media conference in Ballari on Monday, Mr. Ganesh said that the Central surveying agency was being influenced to conduct the survey in a way that its report protects miners who had destroyed the interstate border for their illegal mining. Mr. Ganesh’s main contention was that the Survey of India was relying on the Ballari Reserve Forest map of 1896, which, he argued, was not a primary map as mentioned by the earlier Surveyor General of India. He argued the agency should rely on the 1887 traverse data measurements and readings for the missing boundaries