<p>Surveyors, who had gone to survey a piece of land comprising boulders to set up a stone crushing unit, had to return empty handed after the villagers in the area staged a protest against the setting up of a stone crushing unit near here on Monday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The proposed stone crusher unit covers 38-Kalthuru, Nalkuru and Chara villages. The survey work, as directed by the deputy commissioner, was postponed due to the resistance from the villagers.<br /><br />The surveyors, who were provided a tight security to take up the work, arrived at noon to initiate the work. Prior to that, one of the applicants of the proposed crusher unit had arrived and he was blocked midway by the angered residents. <br /><br />Residents speak<br />Renuka Shetty, who has her ancestral property within 100 metre of the proposed stone crusher unit, said the unit will not be allowed to function at any cost. “The surveyors will not be allowed to enter the area. Let the applicants set up other industries,” she said. <br />“The villagers, who inherited have the land, have a close bonding with the soil. They have cultivated for many years. We have built a new house recently and our land has a farm where we grow coconut, arecanut and cashew trees and we also cultivate paddy,” she added.<br /><br />Bhaskar Poojary said his house stands on the boulders where the proposed crusher unit is being set up. “The walls our house will crack if the boulders are blasted,” he said. <br />Mithun Shetty, who owns 13 acres of land in the region, said Seethanadi is the source of water for the residents in Kalthuru gram panchayat and it will be affected if the stone crusher unit starts functioning here. <br /><br />Vishwanath Shetty, whose cashew factory has provided jobs to nearly 200 people in the area, said that his factory is not more than 200 metres away from the proposed project. The factory will collapse once the stone crusher unit is set up in the region, he expressed apprehension. <br /><br />Yashoda Naik said drinking water will be another problem as dust particles will fill the water bodies. The livestock will suffer as there will be no fodder due to pollution in the area, she said.<br /><br />‘Many prerequisites’<br />Mines and Geology Department geologist Mahesh said the survey is a must to open the unit. <br /><br />“There are many other prerequisites to get permission. The survey is done to look whether the proposed land for the project comes under certain parameters. There should not be more than 30 houses in the 500 metre radius and the cluster of houses (10 houses form a cluster) should not exist in the prescribed limit. The state highway and national highways should not cross within 500 metres of the proposed project and other <br />roads like gram panchayat roads should not cross within 100 metres. All these issues will be taken into consideration while holding the survey,” he added. <br /></p>
<p>Surveyors, who had gone to survey a piece of land comprising boulders to set up a stone crushing unit, had to return empty handed after the villagers in the area staged a protest against the setting up of a stone crushing unit near here on Monday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The proposed stone crusher unit covers 38-Kalthuru, Nalkuru and Chara villages. The survey work, as directed by the deputy commissioner, was postponed due to the resistance from the villagers.<br /><br />The surveyors, who were provided a tight security to take up the work, arrived at noon to initiate the work. Prior to that, one of the applicants of the proposed crusher unit had arrived and he was blocked midway by the angered residents. <br /><br />Residents speak<br />Renuka Shetty, who has her ancestral property within 100 metre of the proposed stone crusher unit, said the unit will not be allowed to function at any cost. “The surveyors will not be allowed to enter the area. Let the applicants set up other industries,” she said. <br />“The villagers, who inherited have the land, have a close bonding with the soil. They have cultivated for many years. We have built a new house recently and our land has a farm where we grow coconut, arecanut and cashew trees and we also cultivate paddy,” she added.<br /><br />Bhaskar Poojary said his house stands on the boulders where the proposed crusher unit is being set up. “The walls our house will crack if the boulders are blasted,” he said. <br />Mithun Shetty, who owns 13 acres of land in the region, said Seethanadi is the source of water for the residents in Kalthuru gram panchayat and it will be affected if the stone crusher unit starts functioning here. <br /><br />Vishwanath Shetty, whose cashew factory has provided jobs to nearly 200 people in the area, said that his factory is not more than 200 metres away from the proposed project. The factory will collapse once the stone crusher unit is set up in the region, he expressed apprehension. <br /><br />Yashoda Naik said drinking water will be another problem as dust particles will fill the water bodies. The livestock will suffer as there will be no fodder due to pollution in the area, she said.<br /><br />‘Many prerequisites’<br />Mines and Geology Department geologist Mahesh said the survey is a must to open the unit. <br /><br />“There are many other prerequisites to get permission. The survey is done to look whether the proposed land for the project comes under certain parameters. There should not be more than 30 houses in the 500 metre radius and the cluster of houses (10 houses form a cluster) should not exist in the prescribed limit. The state highway and national highways should not cross within 500 metres of the proposed project and other <br />roads like gram panchayat roads should not cross within 100 metres. All these issues will be taken into consideration while holding the survey,” he added. <br /></p>
