DH News Service, Bagepalli:

The monsoon rains this year had ushered in new hopes among the people of Bagepalli.

The taluk had witness moderate rainfall, which was suitable for agricultural purposes. It was in this backdrop that it was decided to plant saplings in the premises of every Government School, College, students

DH News Service, Kolar:

An action plan to identify and implement various projects for an amount of Rs 551.63 lakh, released under the SFC scheme, was passed unanimously by the members of the Kolar City Municipal Council, at a special meeting organised here on Tuesday.

The action plan was created, at the special meeting, which was presided by CMC President Nazeer Ahmad.
On the occasion, CMC member S R Muraligowda urged the meeting to earmark an amount of Rs 35 lakh separately for the CMC staff members and the pourakarmikas towards their salaries.

DH News Service, Kolar:

"Special attention has to be given to drinking water and one must always use scientifically cleaned water. Awareness about this has to be spread among the rural people about this and programmes have to be undertaken about the same at the Grama Panchayat level,' said Taluk Panchayat President C R Yuvaraj.
He was speaking after inaugurating the National Drinking Water and Sanitation Programme at the Kolar Taluk Panchayat on Tuesday. The programme was organised by Taluk Panchayat and Grama Panchayat secretaries and Anganwadi workers.

DH News Service, Kolar Gold Fields:

A proposal of Rs 24 crore has been submitted to the government for desilting Bethamangala lake, stated MLA Y Sampangi in KGF.

The work aims to solve the drinking water problem of KGF people.

The Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) will invite tenders in a few months for setting up of a 1450 MW capacity Pumped Storage power generating units across Sharavathi and Kali rivers.

The project, which involves pumping back of water used for generating power into reservoirs, aims at setting up a 800 MW unit at Varahi and 650 MW unit at Sharavathi hydro-stations. The technology will be obtained from Japan the total project cost is estimated to be around Rs 4500 crores.

Nagesh Prabhu BANGALORE: With monsoon becoming weak and drought looming large over Karnataka, the government has extended the weather-based crop insurance scheme to five more districts, covering 12 crops this kharif season.

DH News Service, Mulbagal: Elected representatives and state machinery should give widespread publicity to development works formulated by the government, opined local MLA Amaresh. He was speaking after inaugurating Bharat Nirman programme at Tayalur in the taluk on Monday. He disclosed that as many as 100 villages in the taluk had been brought under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREG), Natonal Rural Health Mission, Sarvashikha Abhiyan and Prime Minister's 15-point programme. The MLA called upon the public to take advantage of all the development programmes.

Kolar, DHNS: Revenue Department will soon set in motion the process to acquire 650 acres of land required for implementation of Yaragol project. A sum of Rs 13 crore will be released to the Department within a week in this behalf.

Kolar: Members of District Poultry Farmers Welfare Association staged a dharna in front of deputy commissioners office here on Wednesday demanding the government to meet their several demands. The protesters said that income from poultry farming offsets the loss that farmers sustain in agriculture. The avocation provides employment to thousands of agricultural labourers.

Kolar: The district is facing acute water shortage with 281 villages lacking drinking water facilities and their number is increasing day by day. The drought relief works requires a fund of Rs 18 crores and soon a proposal will be submitted to the government soon said deputy commissioner B Shivappa. He was speaking, presiding a meeting at his office on Monday of draught relief and calamity authority.