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Kittur may get taluk status

Staff Correspondent

`It may be considered after delimitation is completed'

Belgaum: The Government may consider according taluk status to Kittur, but only after completion of the delimitation of electoral constituencies, Minister for Horticulture and district in-charge Shashikant A. Naik said.

He told presspersons here on Tuesday that it was not possible to take a decision on altering the boundaries of districts or taluks to create new taluks or districts in view of the ongoing process of delimitation in the State.

The government would positively consider the long-pending demand of the people of Kittur.

Kittur utsav

The Minister, who presided over a meeting with senior officials of the district to review preparations for the Kittur Utsav-2006 to be held at the Kittur Fort on October 23 and 24 said that the Government had sanctioned Rs. 20 lakh to organise various programmes for the two-day festivities.

Acting chairman of the State Legislative Council Sachidanand Khot, Lok Sabha member Suresh C. Angadi and Deputy Commissioner Shalini Rajneesh were present.

Mr. Naik, who also reviewed the progress of relief works in the flood- affected villages in the district, said that the Government had so far sanctioned Rs. 105 crore to provide compensation to affected farmers and implement relief works in the flood-affected areas of the district. Of this, Rs. 34 crore was meant for distribution as compensation for the crop loss and Rs. 44 crore for implementation of relief works.

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