B.Y. Raghavendra seeks report on implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission works in Udupi district

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MP for Shivamogga, B.Y. Raghavendra, chairs the District Development and Coordination Committee (DDCC) gathering  astatine  Manipal connected  Tuesday.

MP for Shivamogga, B.Y. Raghavendra, chairs the District Development and Coordination Committee (DDCC) gathering astatine Manipal connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

B.Y. Raghavendra, MP for Shivamogga, connected Tuesday, directed the Udupi Zilla Panchayat Engineering Department to taxable a study connected the implementation of the Rashtreeya Jal Jeevan Mission works successful the district.

Chairing the District Development Coordination Committee (Disha) gathering astatine Rajatadri, territory bureau analyzable astatine Manipal successful Udupi, Mr. Raghavendra pointed retired that 19 gram panchayats successful Udupi taluk person passed resolutions expressing superior dissatisfaction implicit the prime of works executed. Out of 525 works, 487 were implicit and 38 were successful progress, thereby achieving 93% progress. Byndoor Assembly constituency successful Udupi territory comes nether Shivamogga Lok Sabha constituency.

While the Central government’s strategy had the laudable inaugural of providing potable piped h2o to each household crossed the country, resolutions by 19 gram panchayats rise superior concerns astir the prime of work. The section should analyse whether the alleged substandard enactment was connected the method oregon prime beforehand and taxable the study astatine the earliest, the MP said. Jal Jeevan Mission was being implemented astatine an estimated outgo of ₹687 crore, helium noted.

Mr. Raghavendra noted that the authorities has sanctioned 308 houses astatine a outgo of ₹3.73 lakh and 100 houses astatine a outgo of ₹4.5 lakh for the Koraga tribesmen nether the Pradhan Mantri Jan Man successful the district. However, the operation of houses was not completed wrong the prescribed clip limit, the MP said, and asked officials to question fiscal assistance done NGOs if backing was the contented causing the hold successful construction. Houses should beryllium handed implicit to the beneficiaries arsenic promised, helium said.

The MP expressed astonishment that lone 3 days’ clip was fixed to farmers for enrolling successful weather-based harvest security schemes successful Udupi district. At slightest 1 period should beryllium fixed arsenic per the argumentation framework, helium said, asking officials acrophobic to springiness wide publicity to the strategy and enrol a larger fig of farmers. He besides told officials acrophobic to velocity up the onshore acquisition process for widening the Byndoor-Ranebennur National Highway 766C betwixt Kollur and Ranebennur.

Meanwhile, Mr. Raghavendra told Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. officials to upgrade the basal transmission towers to 4G successful the Udupi territory to amended connectivity and code nationalist complaints astir the deficiency of web successful agrarian areas. Out of 196 BTS, 115 person been upgraded to 4G truthful far. If operation erection was not feasible, BNSL should research providing web done satellites.

MLAs Yashpal Suvarna, A. Kiran Kumar Kodgi, Gururaj Gantihole, and Gurme Suresh Shetty, Deputy Commissioner T.K. Swaroopa, Superintendent of Police Hariram Shankar, and others were present.

Published - September 23, 2025 07:29 p.m. IST

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