Mangalore: In a bid to improve and protect a 5 acres area on Kadri Hills covering ancient temples and historic structures around Kadri Park, it was decided to make the entire region into a ‘Green belt’.
The District Administration is taking a leading part in this vast developmental activity to protect and preserve the ancient shrines, monuments and forest areas in series of meetings of citizens and officials at DCO from time to time.
The Forest department had thout of construcing an ‘Aranya Bhavan’(Forest Office building) which needed to be shifted from the region to another place.
Several encroachments had been made and reported over Kadri Park areas. People who regularly visit Kadri Park to attend cultural programmes or for a morning/evening walk, had raised objections to the encroachment of allotted area for Kadri Park
Certain areas of Kadri Hills, earlier where a zoological park was situated had been encroached upon by unauthorized vendors who set up temporary structures that needed to be vacated to create the Green Zone.
The District (Kannada) auditorium proposed in this elevated region Opposite Kadri Park, also has been given up and the auditorium is shifted to another place, it is agreed in a recent meeting held in DCO hall. Several large advertisement hoardings are to be removed and smaller boards put in place. It remains to be seen how long it takes to bring in the Green Belt.