Jagdish Shettar in Port city reviews D.K district Progress Report

19.05.10 Mangalore : Just as the GP elections in D.K’s 5 taluks having concluded and counting of votes done on May 17, former speaker and present Rural Development minister dropped in to check the progress report of the coastal district in regard to water sources and power supply among other things. He told a meeting of officials that his govt. was trying to find a long range solution to the worsening drinking water availability problem in the state, and was consulting ISRO for a discovery of water resources charted from the space (sky). He held a review meeting at the local ZP hall on the goals attained and pending matters. Shettar wanted a scientific search for more drinking water, at the time when diversion of Nethravathi waters from the seaward direction to interior districts (upto Kolar) was creating controversies and protests from the coastal people from various walks of life. He referred to his several meetings with CM on the need to have a separate section of engineers only for the purpose of finding the drinking water in several areas of the state. The minister asked the officials and elected representatives of the people to draw up plans and suggest ways to become self-sufficient in the basic need of drinking water.

Shettar explained that crores of rupees were spent every year on projects involving the state (K) and the centre for supply of water to the people. He asked the secretaries present to submit a report to him on the first of 50 years of Gramodaya project by June next. ZP chairman Santhosh K. Bhandary was present.