Several industrial units in the district have made a ‘private arrangement’ with farmers by providing them compensation for the crop loss due to the effluents released into their fields.

However, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) contends that there is no provision in the law for such compensation. According to documents accessed by Deccan Herald, eight industries in the district are distributing a compensation of Rs 1,20,57,194 to 906 farmers.

State asked to submit report on the camps to court on July 23

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday asked the State government to organise health camps across the State on July 15 to identify and assess the level of malnutrition among children below six years of age. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice B.V. Nagarathna issued the direction after the State government submitted that it would conduct health camps across the State to identify malnourished children.

Every third malnourished child in the State is from the Hyderabad-Karnataka region, reveals a study.

Bidar, Gulbarga, Yadgir, Raichur, and Koppal districts that comprise the Hyderabad-Karnataka region presents a shocking picture. Whereas the situation in Raichur is far worse than sub-Saharan countries and our own BIMARU states, the study notes. The HUNGaMA (Hunger and Malnutrition) report of the Naandi Foundation provides reliable estimates of the prevalence of severe malnutrition in 112 districts in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan.

Conservation measures have taken away the traditional livelihoods of nomadic tribes in Karnataka.

It was pushed through at the Cabinet meeting

Officers from the Health and Revenue departments, who were at Yalaburga town on Monday to acquire land for a hospital, were in for a rude shock when protesting farmers doused themselves with kerosene and threatened to set themselves ablaze.

The agricultural land belonging to about eight families has been identified for the construction of a 100-bed hospital.

Despite ban on exports, state

The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday directed the public prosecutor to secure records pertaining to work on Tungabhadra Left and Right Bank canals in Bellary, Raichur and Koppal districts.

A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed by Noor Mohammad and Riyaz Ahmed alleging substandard work has gone into the ongoing modernisation of the canals in the three districts.

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The Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD) has proposed to establish in situ conservation sites in 13 districts of the State, where it would collect information about floral biodiversity and document it.

The Centre is also planning to start research and conservation of Rare, Endangered and Threatened (RET) species and link cultural relationship in management of biodiversity.

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As many as 236 villages in 13 districts of the State have been reeling under acute drinking water shortage. A sum of Rs 19 crore has been released to supply water through tankers to these villages.