A stone installed demarcating the Andhra Pradesh- Karnataka border in Ballari reserve forest.
Tapal Ekambaram challenged the official communication that the inter-State border was conclusively approved by the Supreme Court and the process of demarcation was being done. The demarcation of the inter-State border between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in Bellari Reserve Forest has yet again been challenged by Tapal Ekambaram, a petitioner in the Supreme Court.
The exercise was completed on ground by the Survey of India officials in the presence of officers from Revenue and State Survey, Mining and Geology, as well as Forest Department officials over the past six months.
‘BJP governments do not want CBI to proceed against the mining firm’
The CPI(M) has blamed the BJP government at the Centre and in Karnataka for the delay in the inter-State border demarcation process on the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border in the Bellari Reserve Forest, where the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) has allegedly resorted to illegal mining.
At a press conference here on Wednesday, party State Committee member O. Kondareddy and north district committee member O. Nallappa alleged that the border dispute was being put off on some pretext or the other for the past 10 years just to save the OMC and its owner Gali Janardhana Reddy.