Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambareesh on Monday urged Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai not to allow quarrying and mining in and around Srirangapatna close to KRS dam based on the study report of the trial blasts proposed in the taluk.
A team of scientists from Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR), a CSIR institute in Dhanbad, Jharkhand is in Mandya district in connection with trial blasts at select places around KRS dam site, to study the impact of the mining on the safety of the dam.