Officials seal 80 illegal resorts in Koppal district
The Hindu
Resort owners get two days to vacate
Following directions from the Koppal Deputy Commissioner, the district authorities identified 80 resorts and homestays operating illegally and sealed them on Wednesday.
Earlier, Deputy Commissioner S. Vikas Kishore had asked the officials of the Hampi Development Authority and the Revenue Department to identify unauthorised resorts in and around Gangavati and submit a report within two days.
The officials have now sealed 80 illegal resorts located in Sannapur, Mallapur, Anegundi and Rampur areas in Gangavati in the district.
Aasheesh Pittie says birdwatching is not very unlike hunting, except that nothing is killed. “You track… you want to follow the bird… see it,” he says about this activity that he has pursued for nearly fifty years. Pittie, the editor of the ornithological journal Indian Birds, author of many classic reference books about birds and most recently, a collection of bird essays titled The Living Air: Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching, was speaking at an event organised by the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).