Subject: save kodagu or coorg - petitions
Its initial Signature Goal is 50 and is yet to be signed by the petition creator with his comprehensive / detailed personal views. Unlike the other two petitions (02 and 03), the petition creator's been unable to update the petition number 01 on his own. He's to unfortunately depend on the site staff to belatedly update it for him (if possible) each and every time. So, there's an apprehension of the petition content getting misaligned when/while/if it is being/getting updated by the site staff. But unlike the earlier / previous years from/between 2010 to 2013, the petition 01 fortunately seems to accept more than 925 characters as views / opinion / comments (if any) by/of/from the potential petition signers.
(Fully featured and comprehensive with 03 captioned photos of Kodagu/Coorg from India's National Newspaper - The Hindu. Its initial Signature Goal is 10 and is yet to be signed by the petition creator with his comprehensive / detailed personal views.)
(Its initial Signature Goal is 10. The petition creator is yet to assign / give his comprehensive / detailed reasons for signing the petition 03 as the petition 03 got signed in his name automatically by default.)
Madikeri/Mercara is a hill station town and the district headquarters of the Kodagu/Coorg district. Kodagu occupies an area of 4,102 square kilometres (1,584 sq mi) in the eco-sensitive Western Ghats of southwestern Karnataka. The Kodagu/Coorg district has only Madikeri, Virajpet and Somwarpet as its 03 taluks/talukas. The eco-system of Madikeri/Kodagu is too fragile and therefore cannot withstand urbanisation, concretisation, industrialisation and construction of (3 or 5) star hotels and airports in the name of development, eco-tourism and creation of a greater/bigger Madikeri.
My late mother was the Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) and District Educational Officer (DEO) of the Kodagu/Coorg district from/between 1987-1988. She'd met the late Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa (1899-1993) in/at his Madikeri residence ('Roshanara') in her official capacity in 1988. Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa was the first Indian Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army. He is among only two Indian Army officers to hold the highest rank of Field Marshal (the other being Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw).
I'm yet to sign all three above-mentioned petitions with my detailed personal views on Madikeri and Kodagu (Virajpet and Somwarpet) regarding their towering lush green and fully grown trees, rivers, valleys, fog on the hills both during the day and at night, torrential rains, soft water of river Cauvery/Kaveri, serpentine roads, huge ups and downs, pleasant and cool summer of 1988, peace, serenity, tranquillity, much lesser number of vehicles/automobiles in 1988, much lesser concretisation / pollution in 1988 etc.
The only sound one could hear in the DDPI's designated quarters in Madikeri in 1988 was that of the clock ticking as there was no noise pollution and the number of vehicles were very less. I had been to Madikeri only twice after 1988 and have not stayed there for more than an hour since 1988. I have seen the progressive escalation in the ecological / environmental destruction, concretisation and urbanisation of Madikeri during my visit in 1994/1995 and in 2003.
When there is shortage of drinking water and electricity in the Madikeri town, Kodagu district and the Karnataka state, a musical fountain has been unnecessarily / needlessly constructed installed at the Raja Seat in 2012. Earlier (in 1988) people used go to the Raja Seat to enjoy/experience its greenery, peace, serenity and tranquillity and to see the trees, plants and flowers in the garden while looking at the lush green Madikeri-Mangalore Road below (downhill). I just do not have enough words to describe the peace, serenity and tranquillity of the lush green and evergreen Madikeri and Kodagu of 1988.
Unfortunately the unscrupulous and corrupt elements in India are unlikely to spare Madikeri/Kodagu, Karnataka and India in the name of infrastructure, development, eco-tourism, resorts, hotels and industrialisation / industrialization.
No metre guage (1,000 mm or 3 ft 3 3⁄8 in), standard guage (1,435 mm / 4 ft 8½ in) and Broad gauge (1435 mm 4ft 8½in) rail/railway line should be constructed/laid in the Kodagu district. The construction of eco-friendly 2 ft (610 mm) and 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauges should be considered for passenger traffic in Kodagu if and only if it is environment friendly and that too if it can/could lead to reduction in the number of private vehicles on the state highways of Kodagu.
Since some non-green NGOs of Kodagu seem allergic to Unesco's World Heritage Site tag to the eco-sensitive Western Ghats in Kodagu none of these petitions have sought the heritage tag as I will / may / might create a separate petition requesting the Karnataka state government to officially and gracefully declare the Western Ghats as a World Heritage Site.
Tanveer
Syed Tanveeruddin, Mysore, Karnataka
Santosha Sangeetha - Kannada song from the film Edakallu Guddada Mele. This song's been picturised in the hilly Kodagu/Coorg district in the 1970s when its forest cover was 86%. Now the forest cover is less than 16% because of development. Motorcycle/Bike in the video: Royal Enfield Bullet.
Madikeri Sipayi (Soldier of Madikeri) - Song in Kodava and Kannada Language from the 1990 Kannada Film Muthina/Mutthina Hara/Haara based which portrays war and its consequences. This song has been picturised in Madikeri which includes the garden near the Raja Seat. The full fledged ecological / environmental destruction of Kodagu/Coorg (in the name of development) had already started much before the picturisation of this song.
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