Activists call for halting KBR Park tunnel feasibility studies, allege major threat to park

The activists explained that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has, without conducting an impact assessment, declared that the underground tunnel is safe and will have no impact on KBR park’s environment, flora, and fauna.

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Hyderabad: A group of climate change campaigners and activists have written to the Telangana forest department raising objections to the tunnel feasibility studies in Kasu Brahmananda Reddy (KBR) Park.

The activists explained that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has, without conducting an impact assessment, declared that the underground tunnel is safe and will have no impact on KBR park's environment, flora, and fauna.

The activists explained that the feasibility studies entail the removal of trees, drilling of a multitude of holes, heavy vehicle movement deep inside the park, frequent and noisy human movement disturbing the ecology and wildlife, emission of dust, and air pollution. Access to the core of KBR Park, in the name of the feasibility study, to men and machines, is likely to cause a massive and debilitating impact on the park and its environs, they stated. They have demanded the forest department and State Wildlife Board immediately halt all activities of GHMC or a firm contracted by it, including a feasibility study for a road tunnel project under KBR Park.