The team’s mandate includes finding the causes of the tragedy, evaluating the environmental approvals granted for the tunnel road project, and checking whether the construction company had followed all the guidelines
It says that the District Disaster Management Authority had directed the executing agencies that the excavated earth near the Anakkampoyil–Kalladi–Meppaditwin tube tunnel road project site be removed, to avert a disaster
The High Court of Karnataka directed that any contract entered into by the State government or its agencies, with third parties for the proposed tunnel road project, will be subject to the outcome of the hearing on three PIL petitions challenging the legality of the approvals for the project