The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday, Septermber7,  dismissed a petition seeking directions to Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Outreach Foundation to not collect funds from the public for the Cauvery Calling Project, according to Live Law report.

Launched in July 2019, the Isha Foundation had said that the initiative was targeted at supporting farmers to plant 242 crore trees along the Cauvery river basin. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum today noted the need for afforestation and appreciated the Isha Outreach Foundation’s efforts towards the cause.

The High Court also considered that the Karnataka government had stated that Cauvery Calling was not its project and that Vasudev’s organization was not planting saplings on government land. In previous hearings of the case, Sr.
Advocate Uday Holla, representing the Isha Outreach Foundation, had argued that any initiative for planting trees should be welcomed. On the matter of raising funds from the public, Holla had said that the organisation was a public charitable trust which declared its accounts every year.

As per reports, Advocate AV Amarnathan had filed a petition against the initiative. He had submitted the government was allowing a private organisation to use its land for planting saplings without studying the impact of the project.

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