Madikeri: Coorg Wildlife Society President K.C. Biddappa has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi and Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar urging them to shelve the proposed Railway project from Kushalnagar to Madikeri through the ecologically fragile hilly terrain of Kodagu.
Mentioning that the project will kill River Cauvery that is a lifeline of over 1.5 crore people in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, he said that if the project sees the light of the day, entire population of agrarian belt from Talacauvery in Kodagu (birthplace of River Cauvery) till Poompuhar in TN (where Cauvery meets Bay of Bengal) will face a catastrophe without water.
