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Funds sanctioned to streamline water supply in Arsikere

By Our Staff Correspondent

HASSAN, MAY 30. Responding to the appeal of the Arsikere Town Municipal Council, the district administration has released Rs. 33 lakh to streamline drinking water supply in the town.

To ease the water crisis gripping the town, the town municipal council took up several works including sinking of borewells and lifting water to a storage tank. All the works are nearing completion. Siddesh, an engineer attached to the town municipal council, said 11 borewells had been sunk on the bank of the Thimmappanayakanakere Tank, two km from the town. All of them were yielding water, he added.

A tank had been constructed near the Thimmappanayakanakere to store water pumped from the borewells. Motors with 7.5 hp to 20 hp capacity had also been fixed, he said.

Water would be lifted to a pump house at Nagatihalli from where it would be supplied to the town, the President of the town municipal council, P. Devakumar, said.

The town municipal council was making efforts to supply drinking water to the people of the town despite failure of rain. Arsikere town was getting water from 28 borewells sunk near the Thimmappanayakanakere earlier. As the borewells had stopped yielding water due to the depletion in the water level, it had become difficult for the town municipal council to provide drinking water to the people.

He said a plan was conceived in 1986 to lift water from the Eechanarkere in Tiptur taluk to be supplied to Arsikere. Though the project was approved in 1994, supply of drinking water started only in November 1997, he added.

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