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Cauvery fourth stage project to be taken up

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, JAN. 20. The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWWSB) will take up the Cauvery Fourth Stage drinking water supply scheme to augment water supply to Bangalore at an estimated cost of Rs. 3,400 crores.

The Governor, T.N. Chaturvedi, in his address to the joint session of the State Legislature here on Thursday, said that with the assistance of the World Bank, a scheme to augment drinking water supply in the cities of Belgaum, Hubli-Dharwad, and Gulbarga, would also be taken up at the cost of Rs. 230 crores.

The Government had recently commissioned 30 water supply and underground drainage schemes in different towns and cities at the cost of Rs. 322 crores.

He said that the Government had sought assistance from the World Bank for a municipal reforms project estimated to cost Rs. 385 crores. It was also implementing the Nirmala Nagar programme in 57 municipalities of the State.To ensure a planned growth of cities, the Government had approved Outline Development Plans and Comprehensive Development Plans for 80 cities and towns. Base maps at the cost of Rs. 12 crores using aerial photographic techniques were also under preparation for 16 towns with the assistance of the Asian Development Bank.

Industrial clusters

The Governor said the Union Government had approved the State Government's proposal to set up industrial clusters in Belgaum for foundries and in Bangalore for machine tools with an investment of Rs. 24.78 crores and Rs. 135.5 crores respectively.

Nineteen mega industrial ventures spanning manufacturing, information technology, bio-technnology, tourism, and infrastructure, had been approved over the past six months and this would bring in investments of Rs. 28,000 crores.

In the power sector, four units each of 55 MW capacity of the Alamatti Dam Power House would be commissioned by the end of July.

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