The Minister of Transport Transport and the Nitin motorway Gadkari visited the Sigandoor Chowdeshwari temple in Sagar Taluk from the Shivamogga district after recently launched bridge built through Sharavati. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The private trust that manages the Sigandoor Chowdeshwari temple in Sagar Taluk from the Shivamogg district, was looking for 4.19 hectares of forest forests, for rent for 99 years, for the activities of the temple. He wants the land that falls into the Sharavathi Valley Lion Tails Macaque Wildlife Sanctua in reconnaissance numbers 65 and 32 villages Brahmanavad Kalasavalli in Sagar Taluk.
The temple, located on the shore of the Sharavati table water, attracts hundreds of devotees every day. Recently, the Minister of Transport Transport and the Nitin motorway Gadkari visited the temple soon after he started the bridge built through Sharavati’s standing waters. The Minister also named the bridge after the Sigandoor Chowdeshwari.
Proposal
Ravikumar HR, July 16, submitted a proposal on behalf of the Shree Sigandoor Chowdamma Devi Trust to the Ministry of the Environment, Forests and Climate Change. He sought out the diversion of forest channels for temple activities and also turned to state and national boards of wild animals to recommend them.
Trust has already built canteen, guest houses, toilets, parking yards and houses for employees on the soil. In its justification, the applicant stated that “all these buildings were built in the area under the jurisdiction of the forest department before we knew it” and confessed to building structures in the forest region without prior consent.
Compensatory
Instead of forest land, it proposed to convert and seize 4.44 ha (10 hectares and 39 guntas) private land located in Nelahari and Kanapagar Village of Barangi Hobli of Sagar Taluk in the name of the forest department for compensatory afforestation. The earth is in the name of Ramapp, the control manager.
The applicant stated that a written petition concerning the intervention in the forest was waiting for the High Court in Karnataka.
In addition, there was a charge of interfering into the forest against trust. In 2020, when the management manager of the trust, Mr. Ramapp and the main priest, Sheshagiri Bhat, had differences over the administration of the temple, the district administration of Shivamogg set up a committee that temporarily managed the temple. Then the deputy of the Commissioner Shivamogg said that confidence interfered with almost 20 hectares of forests. Trust was now looking for the same land for rent.
Message searched
The proposal is controlled before the representative of the forest conservator (wilderness) Prasanna Krishna Patagar. The officer, when he was contacted by Hindu, said he had sought a detailed report from an officer of the forest officer.
“The proposal may be submitted and strived to drain the forests already affected.
Published – July 26 2025 20:37
