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Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on 26 August 2026 announced that the state would call a special session of the legislature to discuss the Centre's draft notification implementing the Kasturirangan committee report on ecologically sensitive areas in the Western Ghats, and to pass a resolution opposing it. He said the draft would affect livelihood and farming activity in 1,449 villages across 33 taluks and 10 districts, spanning about 20,668 square kilometres, and imposes conditions on infrastructure, mining, power, construction, tourism and road development in the area. Shivakumar noted that the state Cabinet had already rejected the Kasturirangan report in September 2024, but that the Centre had now notified the draft unilaterally.