Missing trekkers in Karnataka: State govt to bring new SOPs for hikers amid cases of disappearance

Recently, GS Sharanya, a 36-year-old IT professional from Kerala’s Kozhikode, went missing on April 2 during a trekking trip to Tadiandamol hills in Kodagu. Now, a 14-year-old girl from Kerala has gone missing during a family trek in the state's Chandradrona hill range.

New Delhi: The Karnataka Forest Department is set to implement strict rules to ensure the safety of those who go trekking in the hill ranges of the state.

In the wake of the recent alarming cases of trekkers going missing in the Chandradrona mountain range and Tadiandamol in Kodagu, Eshwar Khandre, the Minister of Forest, Ecology and Environment of Karnataka, has instructed........

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