Ramesh Says No To Night Safari Project In Hyderabad

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 31 No. 3, March 2011

 

The project is being executed by a state government unit.

 

“I am dismayed to learn that, for from toning down the construction and making it eco-friendly, the project proponents have actually planned to construct huge concrete structures such as a large hotel with 300 to 400 rooms, a convention centre with a seating capacity of 2,500 people and a multipex having a dozen screens with a multi-level parking lot for about 5,000 vehicles."

 

“It will be totally unacceptable in a forest area," Ramesh said in a letter to Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy. Read the full report here.

 

Source: HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, New Delhi.

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