| # | Name | Comments | Country, State, City, Locality, NGO / Association | Link / URL / Website | Chamundi Hills' fragile eco-system is facing threats from or because of |
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| 1 | Syed Tanveeruddin | Chamundi Hills should be saved from encroachment and the perils of unbridled urbanisation and unregulated "development". The planning authority may please prepare a feasibility report for the proposed projects and make it available to the public. Any project that entailed ecological damage should be preceded by an environmental impact assessment (EIA) by a competent and independent body and the law stipulated this. It was only after such an assessment a project could be cleared if it was found to be negative for environmental damage. A series of landslips due to loss of green cover was reported in 2005 and the road leading to Chamundi Hills had to be closed for traffic for some time. The landslip reported atop Chamundi Hills on Friday May 19, 2006 following heavy rain is a pointer to the fragility of the eco-system. It also vindicates our opposition to the projects as Chamundi Hills was fragile and it could not withstand further ecological stress. It also underlines the need to conduct an Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) to ascertain the feasibility of projects before they're cleared. The forest area and green cover of Chamundi Hills had gradually been reduced to 25 sqkm in the absence of a "buffer zone" or "green belt". The buffer zone entails demarcating 500 metres around Chamundi Hills and notifying the land and banning all activities that threatens the ecology of the region due to change in land use pattern. This will regulate construction activity and prevent encroachment. To prevent encroachment and further erosion of green cover, at least 300 metres around the hills may please be declared "core conservation area / zone" where land can only be used for social forestry and conservation activity. The remaining 200 metres may please be declared "peripheral conservation area" with emphasis on horticulture and agriculture. 50 metres of land around a water body and its feeder channels may please be protected. Preservation of the hill and its surroundings would recharge underground water, which could supply at least 25 per cent of the water requirement to a population of 16 lakh. We also request the government to retrieve the encroached land and recruit more forest guards to check poaching and illegal grazing. | India, Karnataka, Mysore, Siddharthanagar, Karanji and Siddharthanagar Tax Payers' Association or KSTPA | http://mysore.12.forumer.com | 09 |
| 2 | Mahanteshgouda P | | | | 09 |
| 3 | Kishen Das | Please save chamundi hills. | Mysore Amateur naturalists | | 04 |
| 4 | Nitin V Ranga | | Mysore, India | | 09 |
| 5 | Anuradha | Save the environment...if u want your future generations to enjoy the world... there is no end to the unrealistic ambitions of humans... with total disregard to the effect it will happen for his own future generations!!! | Bangalore,Karnataka,India | | 08 |
| 6 | gayathri subramanian | | | | |
| 7 | Robin Christopher J | It's time to re-define "Development"........ | Bangalore | | 08 |
| 8 | padmini | | Bangalore | | |
| 9 | sanghamitra lahiri | Let good senses prevail .Let us make the world safe for the future generations. | | | 09 |
| 10 | Arun Kaulige | | | | 08 |
| 11 | Ravindra V | | | | 01 |
| 12 | N Anand Rao | All commercial activities may be carried out at the periphery of Chamundi hills. No such activity be carried out either enroute to the temple on top of the hill or on the top of the hill. | India
Delhi
R.K.Puram
National informatics Centre
Min Of communication and IT | | 08 |
| 13 | karegowda | Chamundi Hills should be saved from encroachment and the perils of unbridled urbanisation and unregulated "development". | gg | ggg | |
| 14 | Niveditha | | | | 09 |
| 15 | Nikhil | Please keep the planet the way it was before you infested it. | Bangalore | www.bumsonthesaddle.com | 08 |
| 16 | Joseph Dsouza | How long will it take to realise our mistakes? | India, Karnataka, Bangalore | | 08 |
| 17 | Somya Iyer | | | | 08 |
| 18 | Naveein O C | | Foundation for Nature Exploration and Environmental Conservation | | 08 |
| 19 | Muniraja R | Save Chamundi Hills | India, Karnataka, Bengalooru | | 09 |
| 20 | Jeyaraman | | People's Watch, 6, Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai 625002. Tamil Nadu | www.pwtn.org | 08 |
| 21 | Ida | | | | |
| 22 | Abhijit Datta | | | | 03 |
| 23 | Tarun Kumar Debnath | | India, WB | | 09 |
| 24 | Roda Mehta | | Boat Club Road, Pune India
National Society for Clean Cities, Pune Tree Watch, University Women's Association | | 08 |
| 25 | S.Vidya | | | | |
| 26 | Feroza Saran , | The Central Government should come out with a National Policy, to protect ALL Hills, Mountains, water bodies, natural or manmade, e.g. riverbanks, nallahs, lakes, which is the natural wealth and heritage of our country.
In the absence of such a policy, citizens are forced to litigate in order to protect their right to a pure environment, free from pollution, thus taking up the valuable time of the already shortstaffed judiciary. | India, Maharashtra, Pune,
National Society of Friends of the Trees. | | 09 |
| 27 | Ashok Sreenivas | | Pune | | |
| 28 | Prof. Aneeta Gokhale-Benninger | | Centre for Development Studies & Activities, (CDSA), Survey No. 58 & 49/4, Bavdhan khurd, Pune 411 021, India | www.cdsaindia.org | 09 |
| 29 | Anonymous | | | | 01 |
| 30 | Amit Bansal | I wish you luck. Chamundi Hills used to be a lovely weekend getaway, cool and green. Its overrun by uncaring tourists, garbage and now houses. Crazy. | | http://theeverydayblog.blogspot.com/ | 08 |
| 31 | Anonymous | | | | 01 |
| 32 | sujata | Save Chamundi Hills | India, Maharashtra,
Pune 411006. | | 02 |
| 33 | Lata Menon | | Pune,Maharashtra | | |
| 34 | Moha | | Hyderabad | | |
| 35 | Dr. Ashish Vashist | | | | |
| 36 | Anonymous | | | | 01 |
| 37 | Anonymous | | India, Karnataka , Mysore, Chamundipuram | None | 09 |
| 38 | Arati Chokshi | | | | 08 |
| 39 | Atul Chokshi | | | | 08 |
| 40 | pittet catherine | | IISc, Bangalore | | 08 |
| 41 | Bhama | | | | 08 |
| 42 | Nitin V Ranga Rao | | Karnataka | | 09 |
| 43 | varun vinayan | | | | 08 |
| 44 | dajky ruru | | | | |
| 45 | Anonymous | YA M IN SUPPORT TO SAVE CHAMUNDI HILLS | DISTT - SIWAN ;STATE -BIHAR .. | | 05 |
| 46 | Roeland Neijboer | The environment, all over the world, should have our greatest attention | the Netherland, Hasselt | | 07 |
| 47 | Rhea Mungal | Please save the Chamundi Hills and Lakes. I am ashamed to be of East Insian ancestory. In Trinidad and Tobago we have Essar Steel about to destroy our beautiful mangroves in India its your hills and lakes. What is next? | Trinidad and Tobago | | |
| 48 | Marilena Dracea | | Bucharest, ROMANIA | | |
| 49 | Anonymous | None | America | | 08 |
| 50 | Sridhar Raman | | Hasiru Usiru | | 08 |