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The story so far: On September 22, the Karnataka Legislature unanimously passed a resolution rejecting the K. Kasturirangan Committee report on the Western Ghats in its current form. The resolution was in response to the seventh draft, published on July 27 by the Ministry of Environment, Ecology and Climate Change to declare parts of the…
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Minister T. Siddique. | Photo Credit: K.K.NAJEEB The Kerala government is taking steps to ensure the complete exclusion of inhabited and agricultural areas from the proposed Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) in the Western Ghats, Agriculture Minister T. Siddique has said. According to Mr. Siddique, the Centre’s seventh draft ESA notification, issued on July 25, covers…