TUMKUR: Following the Central Empowered Committee’s (CEC) earlier visit, the 16-member team led by Central Council for Forest Research and Education (ICFRE) director general Dr V K Bahuguna visited the mining areas for a macro-level Environment Impact Study (EIS) on Sunday.The team visited mining areas in Chikkanayakanahalli, Tiptur and Gubbi taluks.The team expressed its unhappiness over the measures taken by the mining leasees to compensate the damage to the environment and advised them to do it immediately.The owners of Karnataka Mining Company, Ganapathi Mines and Surendranath Singh Mines were among those present during the visit, official sources said.Like the CEC, this team too kept the media at bay as it did not even allow shooting.At Abbigegudda area in Chikkanayakanahalli, it allowed cameramen to take very few photographs.The DC informed that the team will hold a media conference in his office on Monday.The team comprised Director of IWST S C Joshi, ADG (EM) Dr Dharmendra Verma, environmental scientists Dr CVC Rao, Dr Ramtake, both from NEERI in Nagpur, Aseem Srivastava, ML Shrivastava, Sudhirkumar, Dr H B Vasishtha and Risha Dwivedy from WII, FS and ICFRE in Dehradun, Dr C S Jha NRSC, Hyderabad, Dr N Rama Rao and R A Somashekar 3-Day Stay for EIA Team: Rs. 1.1 LakhTUMKUR: Tumkur district administration has to cough up no less than Rs. 1 lakh to pay the lodging and boarding expenses of the 16-member team which was here for three days to make a macro level Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) in the mining areas.The team led by the Director General of Indian Council for Forest Research and Education, V K Bahuguna was given a luxurious accommodation at the newly-opened Naveen Regency opposite APMC Yard on BH Road, though the recently renovated Travellers Bungalow, which comes under the Public Works Department, was ready with air conditioned rooms for the VIPs.Instead, each of 16 members were given a double bed AC room for Rs. 1,900, plus Rs. 250 luxury tax, totally Rs. 2,150, per day
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