<p>Minister for Minor Irrigation Shivaraj Tangadagi said on Tuesday that the government was mulling setting up a groundwater directorate, to protect the State’s depleting water table.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The minister was addressing a press conference after taking part in a Hyderabad-Karnataka liberation day programme in the city. Projects to replenish the water table would be implemented on a pilot basis in five districts: Kolar, Raichur, Bijapur, Koppal and one district in the old Mysore region.<br /><br />Tangadagi said that during his recent visit to Rajasthan with officials and engineers of his department, he had come across five rivers which had been given a new lease of life under the leadership of water conservationist Rajendra Singh.<br /><br />The State’s efforts to revive the water table would be based on the Rajasthan model under Singh’s guidance, he said.</p>
<p>Minister for Minor Irrigation Shivaraj Tangadagi said on Tuesday that the government was mulling setting up a groundwater directorate, to protect the State’s depleting water table.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The minister was addressing a press conference after taking part in a Hyderabad-Karnataka liberation day programme in the city. Projects to replenish the water table would be implemented on a pilot basis in five districts: Kolar, Raichur, Bijapur, Koppal and one district in the old Mysore region.<br /><br />Tangadagi said that during his recent visit to Rajasthan with officials and engineers of his department, he had come across five rivers which had been given a new lease of life under the leadership of water conservationist Rajendra Singh.<br /><br />The State’s efforts to revive the water table would be based on the Rajasthan model under Singh’s guidance, he said.</p>
