HASSAN: Minister for Women and Child Development H.K. Kumaraswamy has said that over 11 crore children in the country had not been administered polio drops. He was speaking to presspersons in Belur on Monday. He advised health workers to treat the Pulse Polio programme as a sacred task and to approach it with honesty.

Scarcity

Mr. Kumaraswamy directed officers to prepare an action plan on tackling the drinking water scarcity faced by some villages during summer.

Water table low

He said there was a scarcity of drinking water in Halebeedu and Madihalli hobli. The water table was low in these parts and the drilling of borewells would not help.

Remedy

The only remedy would be to draw water from Yagachi River. He also suggested that defective borewells be repaired.

Mr. Kumaraswamy said he had found that in some places, officers had laid pipelines and installed electric pumps even before drilling borewells and determining how much water could be got.

Mr. Kumaraswamy said pipelines should be laid only after the water yield had been ascertained.

He promised that Rs 5.5 lakh would be released for the laying of a pipeline from Kadegarji village, where two borewells had been drilled, to Arehalli, for supply of drinking water.

Hi-tech lavatories

Mr. Kumaraswamy said that two hi-tech lavatories would be constructed at Halebeedu and Belur at a cost of Rs. 15 lakh each for use by tourists.

They would be ready by April, he said, and added that similar lavatories would be constructed at 15 other tourist centres in the State.

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