Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 23 (ANI): Karnataka Minister of Environment, Ecology, and Forests, Eshwar B Khandre, has directed the officials to not to hand over the Devadari forest area of Sandur in Ballari to Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL). This comes after Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Steel HD Kumaraswamy gave his consent to start mining in the Devadari forest area to the company. Minister Eshwar Khandre said, “99,330 trees will be cut down and destroyed due to mining here if permission is given. If the dense forest is destroyed, the problem of soil erosion and f…