After knocking on the doors of the State government about two months ago, by appealing it to drop the Netravathi Waterfront Development Project under the Mangaluru Smart City Mission, the stakeholders of the project have reiterated that the project is not feasible as many questions have remained unanswered and the project lacked clarity.
In their latest petition to Dinesh Gundu Rao, Minister in charge of Dakshina Kannada, the stakeholders, including partners of a tile factory, boatyard builders, private land owners residing along the Netravathi bank from Netravathi railway bridge to Bolar sea face covering a distance of 2.1 km, said that Mangaluru Smart City Ltd (MSCL) is not transparent and the stakeholders have been kept in the dark over how the project is going to be implemented.
The latest petition was submitted to the Minister in the Janata Darshan in the city on September 25. Earlier, on July 27 the stakeholders, led by F. M. Lobo, managing partners of Cascia Tile Factory, which is a heritage structure, submitted a petition to the Chief Secretary of the State government and other senior officials concerned, appealing the government to shelve the project. In all, 323 persons had signed this petition.
