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Supreme Court seeks update on power cables at Great Indian Bustard’s habitat -Shuchita Jha

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Supreme Court seeks update on power cables at Great Indian Bustard’s habitat

The Supreme Court of India sought an update April 1, 2022 from the committee formed for making power lines underground in Rajasthan and Gujarat ordered a year ago. 

The habitat of the state bird of Rajasthan — the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) or Godavan — is under threat due to the zigzag web of high-tension power lines through the sacred groves of Jaisalmer. The sacred groves of the Degrai Oran and adjoining area are few of the last remaining habitats of the GIB. 

Wind farms and solar parks in the area have encroached upon the grasslands and the high-tension power lines criss-crossing through several points in the region pose a threat of electrocution of the big birds. 

Wildlife conservationist MK Ranjitsinh Jhala filed a petition in the Supreme Court of India in 2019 for power companies to lay underground wiring in the sacred groves of Jaisalmer. The petition was to protect GIBs and lesser floricans from extinction. 

SC had ordered the power companies in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat April 19, 2021 to make the high-tension power lines underground so that the large birds do not get caught in the web.  

A three-member high-level committee was also formed to look into the feasibility of the work. The committee comprised Rahul Rawat, scientist with the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Sutirtha Dutta, scientist with the Wildlife Institute of India and Devesh Gadhavi, deputy director of Corbett Foundation.

The apex court has given the committee three weeks’ time to file the report “indicating what steps have been taken for compliance with the directions contained in the judgment of this Court”.

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