Nagarika Seva Trust and Dakshina Kannada Parisarasaktara Okkuta urged the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel led by Madhav Gadgil not to recommend Gundia power project as well as other mini hydel power projects in the Western Ghat region.

In a memorandum submitted to the Madhav Gadgil during his visit to Gundia, the NGOs said that the government had given nod for the setting up of 136 mini hyde