JOIN USBirur Town Municipal Council President Geetha Hemanth has said that most of the work on the drinking water project to supply water from Bhadra river to Kadur and Birur towns has been completed and the water will be supplied at any cost, despite the confusion surrounding widening of road.
Speaking to reporters at the TMC office on Monday, she said that Mescom officials were supposed to provide electricity connections to the jackwell near Lakkavalli and water purification unit near Tarikere. Superintendent engineers from Shimoga and Mysore have shown green signal for power supply. Water will be supplied on an experimental basis, by flowing water from Lakkavalli reservoir to Tarikere drinking water purification unit and from there to the water storage unit at Doddaghatta, she said.
On the confusions surrounding the water supply issue due to road widening proposal in the town, she said that a meeting of MLA Y S V Datta, former MLAs K B Mallikarjuna, Y C Vishwanath, the officials and residents will be convened in Bangalore soon. In the meeting, elected representatives will stress for the construction of a bypass or flyover to avoid the confusion. All three political leaders have promised of stressing on the need for Bhadra drinking water project.
Further, she said that there is a proposal to use two acre land belonging the TMC on Yagati road to develop solid waste management unit. The Councillors have demanded to use a portion of Rs 40 lakh released by the government for drought-prone areas, to drill borewells. A decision will be taken after discussing with the officers.
She also promised of taking a right decision on distributing sites to beneficiaries at S R Lakshmaiah layout, after discussing it with MLA Y S V Datta and former MLAs K B Mallikarjuna and S L Dharme Gowda.