The ban on vehicle movement on the two national highways passing through the Bandipur National Park will come into effect from Wednesday. This follows a direction from the Karnataka High Court. According to the order, vehicles will not be allowed on National Highway 212 (Mysore-Gundlupet-Sultan Battery) and NH 67 (Gundlupet-Ooty) from 9 pm to 6 am.
Accordingly, the journey to Ooty will now be via Gundlupet. Likewise, those going to Sultan Battery from Mysore will go via Hunsur, Ponnampet and Kalpetta. Which may take 100Km extra to reach sulthan battery In the interests of passengers, two vehicles each from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka will be allowed to pass through the national park after 9 pm from both directions. As per the details available, around 15-20 vehicles pass through Bandipur National Park every minute. More than 100 trucks carrying vegetables from Mysore and Chamarajanagar and 250-300 sand laden trucks pass through this park every day.
| The Congress MP from Kerala, M I Shanavas, on Tuesday sought the Union government’s intervention to lift the ban on nocturnal vehicular traffic on National Highway-212 that passes through Bandipur National Park. | |
| Shanavas told the LS that the NH-212 links Wayanad and Calicut in Kerala with Chamarajnagar in Karnataka and the High Court’s ban on nocturnal traffic had caused severe inconveniences for the people of both the States. He said that the Centre should intervene and get the Karnataka government take appropriate steps to lift the ban. | |
tail end: expecting more bans from HC, SC or UN for air transortation due to the killing of birds. :)
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