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Rs. 200 crore to be allocated for repair of distributaries: MLA

Staff Correspondent

Proposal on canal repair placed before Cabinet
Three new 33 kV sub-stations to be sanctioned

KURGODU (BELLARY DT): The State Government will be allocating Rs. 200 crore for modernisation of the distributaries of high level and low level canals of the Tungabhadra Reservoir in the district.

N. Suryanarayan Reddy, Kurgodu MLA and Political Secretary to the Chief Minister, told presspersons here on Tuesday that Minister for Water Resources K.S. Eshwarappa had received a proposal in this regard prepared and very soon it would be placed before the Cabinet for its approval. The favourable response from Mr. Eshwarappa came in the wake of demands from farmers of command area to allocate funds for modernising the canals to ensure that water reached the last mile, he said

Kurgodu Assembly segment, which formed part of Bellary taluk, had a major irrigated tract served by high-level and low-level canals. Mr. Reddy said three new 33 kV sub-stations had been sanctioned for Kolagal, Yerragudi, Rupanagudi and Belagal in his constituency and the work of erecting the station would begin soon.

The work of providing shelter, with the help of funds released by Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, had been completed. Chief Minister, as promised, released Rs. 10 lakh and the remaining Rs. 8 lakh had been released from his MLA’s grants to complete the work, he said.

Earlier, he launched several development works, including construction of a building for degree college, a fire station and widening of roads by performing bhoomi puja at Kurgodu on Tuesday.

The degree college building is estimated to cost about Rs. 75 lakh and the Fire Station Rs. 50 lakh. Bellary APMC president Bhaskar Reddy and Sumangala, Director of Raichur, Bellary, Koppal Milk Producers’ Federation, were present.

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