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Work on Belgaum Zilla Panchayat building nearing completion

FINISHING TOUCHES: The new building of the Belgaum Zilla Panchayat which is being given the final touches.

Belgaum: The countdown has begun for the inauguration of the new building of the Belgaum Zilla Panchayat, as the construction work is in the last stages of completion.

According to sources in the panchayat, the work on the main building has been completed and only finishing touches are being given.

The electrification work is in progress. Furniture setting and interior decoration are the two other important works which would be completed within a fortnight before the building gets ready for inauguration.

It has been a dream of the panchayat to have a proper and bigger building of its own.

Though the building in the Deputy Commissioner’s Office compound, from where the panchayat is functioning since 1987, is convenient for administrative sections, the council hall for holding general body meetings and reviewing other development programmes such as the Karnataka Development Programme cannot accommodate all the officials expected to be present during such meetings.

Presspersons often find themselves struggling for a seat while covering the proceedings.

However, it was the then Deputy Commissioner Shalini Rajneesh who took the lead and got the proposal for setting up the new building cleared from the government last year. The Government responded to the proposal, which was also recommended by the elected body, and sanctioned 28 guntas of land belonging to the panchayat.

Deputy Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa laid the foundation stone for the new building on July 16, 2006.

Thereafter, the construction work, which was allotted to the Karnataka Land Army, was carried out expeditiously by the agency.

Sources told The Hindu here on Friday that the Government had provided Rs. 4.09 crore, including Rs. 1.96 crore for the construction of the main building.

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