MCC meeting: Decision on 24-houre water supply put off

July 30, 2011

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Mangalore July30: The council of Mangalore City Corporation at its meeting on Friday chose to defer a decision on the proposed round-the-clock water supply in the city.

The council deferred discussion on the issue without any debate over the scheme, which is to be implemented under public-private partnership.

Whip in the council Sudhir Shetty Kanur said the council had been postponing the agenda as it required deliberation before choosing one of the three bids mentioned on the agenda.

But sources in the Bharathiya Janatha Party (BJP) told The Hindu that BJP was not keen on implementing the proposal in the next two years because of its political fallout. With only two years left for term of the present BJP-led Council, the party was against facing the elections after increasing the water tariff, which is inevitable if the scheme were to be implemented. The BJP is apprehensive that this might prove costly for the party in the election.

Sources said that if it approved the proposal now, it would the take a year for the proposal to become a rality. Then only a few months would be left for the elections.

Hence, the party was cautious in implementing the scheme in a hurry.

A 27-member team of the corporation had visited Hubli last month to study the 24 x 7 water supply scheme implemented in select wards on a trial basis.

At its meeting on Friday, the council passed a proposal authorizing Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) to conduct a study and implement a comprehensive project on reducing energy consumption by streetlights. The study would cover changing streetlight to save energy, and proper maintenance and monitoring the maintenance through information technology tools. The KUIDFC would be the nodal agency for implementing the project under the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environment Management Project (KUDCEMP).

Ward Committees

The council did not take any decision on constituting ward committees in the city.

The agenda to this effect had proposed making 20 zones by distributing 60 wards under it for constituting the committees. The council postponed its decision to this effect without any debate.

The council ratified the approval given in last month's council meeting of reserving Rs. 3 crore for constructing a railway overpass at Mahakalipadpu railway level-crossing It ratified the decision of depositing the fund with the Southern Railway

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April 11,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 11: Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda claimed the lockdown decision was taken in 'haste' without forethought because of which farmers and the working class were 'suffering' and suggested measures to mitigate the impact. The state government should have consulted experienced citizens, officials, progressive farmers, farmer organisations and wholesale traders about the pros and cons before lockdown, he said in a letter to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, while highlighting that 61 per cent of the state's population depended on agriculture.

Because of the "hasty decision taken without any preparations", farmers of the country and the state are facing financial distress," he said in the April 9 letter, a copy of which was released to media here on Friday. The JD(S) patriarch suggested taking up some measures, including ensuring no restrictions on agriculture activities, procurement of horticulture produce at a fair price, relaxing export curbs on it, to provide relief to farmers, agriculture labourers, and daily wage workers.

On Sunday, Gowda had said he has assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi of his support in the nation's battle against COVID-19 pandemic when the latter called him to discuss the situation. In his letter to the chief minister, Gowda said: "...the lockdown implemented to control the spread of coronavirus has led our farmers into despair and put their lives into a burning fire.

This lockdown looks like a decision taken at haste without proper thinking and forethought for our farmers, agriculture labourers, and daily wage workers." He said the lockdown decision was taken after remaining 'quite' for about two months since the first corona infection was reported in the country on January 30. Among the suggestions made by the former prime minister include, procurement of horticulture produce at a fair price like in the case of milk from villages by the government through related organisations like Karnataka Horticulture Federation, HOPCOMS among others.

As horticulture produce was perishable, there should be no restriction on its procurement, transportation and marketing; all processing related activities of horticulture produce should be given relaxation from the lockdown, he said. Gowda also called for relaxation on exports for horticulture produce and its processed items. There should be no restriction on agriculture activities; a national grid has to be set up for marketing of horticulture produce, he said.

If such measures were not taken up immediately, the government will have to pay compensation to farmers for losses. Lack of remedial measures would lead to a shortage of supply, leading to rebellion from the people and may result in farmers' suicides and bringing about a situation that might be more grave than coroanvirus, he said.

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