Mysuru: Following the Supreme Court granting additional four-week time to the Centre to respond to its suggestion for developing an alternative route (connecting Karnataka and Kerala) as National Highway to ensure that the roads passing through the Bandipur Tiger Reserve are shut down permanently, a team of Forest Department, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the officials from Kerala and Karnataka State Highways surveyed the road and will submit an affidavit in the Apex Curt.
Confirming this to Star of Mysore this morning, Bandipur Project Tiger and Park Director T. Balachandra said that the survey was carried out three days back and the road from Sultan Batheri in Kerala that links to Mysuru via Gonikoppal has been identified as the alternative road. Traffic is at present banned inside Bandipur from 9 pm to 6 am and this was enforced in 2009 by Mysuru Deputy Commissioner.
