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The Minister for Agriculture N. Cheluvarayaswamy, who is besides successful complaint of Mandya, toured a fewer rain-affected areas successful the territory connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) and assured alleviation to those impacted by the downpour.
The territory received dense to precise dense rains done Thursday (October 9, 2025) and lasted till the aboriginal hours of Friday (October 10, 2025) and inundated low-lying areas, breached an irrigation canal that led to inundation of cultivation fields.
Within Mandya town, the Minister visited and inspected KHB Colony which is waterlogged owed to dense rains during the past 48 hours.
Local residents, who person been surviving successful the colony for astir 2 decades, recalled that earlier, whenever it rained heavily, they were forced to vacate the colony for a week. They pointed retired that operation of a retaining partition astatine a outgo of astir ₹20 crore successful caller times, helped them stave disconnected large flooding.
The Minister said that the Government has already floated a tender of ₹15-crore worthy of projects that includes operation of a 2.5-km barrage to forestall the overflow of excess rainwater. Mr. Cheluvaraswamy said successful all, ₹41 crore has been sanctioned for the improvement of the Ward fig 3 of the KHB Colony. Though immoderate information of the task person been completed, immoderate of the works person been held up pending an investigation.
The Minister said a gathering of the gross section officials volition beryllium convened on with officials from the metropolis municipal assembly connected the benignant and grade of alleviation that request to beryllium provided to the flood-affected people.
Mr. Cheluvarayaswamy said that the full State was receiving dense rains since the past fewer days arsenic a effect of which the harvest harm has been pegged astatine implicit 13 lakh hectares crossed each districts. In Mandya, harvest nonaccomplishment owed to dense rains has been pegged astatine 80 hectares, helium added. “A elaborate survey volition beryllium conducted erstwhile the rains stop, and nonstop information connected harvest harm volition beryllium ascertained’’, said the Minister.
Mr. Cheluvaraswamy besides inspected the breach successful the Chikka Devaraja Sagar (CDS) canal astatine Dasaraguppe successful Srirangapatana taluk and which had led to localized flooding of cultivation fields.
Speaking aft the inspection, the curate said that owed to the dense rains, the canal overflowed and broke its embankment, starring to nonaccomplishment of some cultivation and horticultural crops. A associated survey volition beryllium taken up erstwhile the rains abate to entree the grade of harm truthful that proposals could beryllium prepared to denote suitable compensation to the farmers, said Mr. Cheluvarayaswamy.
He assured that erstwhile the associated survey was completed, compensation would beryllium credited to farmers’ accounts connected completion of the processes. “If farmers person insured their crops, they volition person some security and authorities compensation’’, helium added.
The h2o done the CDS canal has been stopped temporarily and the repair works would commence aft the rains stop, said the Minister.
MLA Ravikumar, City Municipal Council President M.V. Prakash, Deputy Commissioner Dr. Kumar, Zilla Panchayat CEO K.R. Nandini, and SP Mallikarjun Baladandi, Srirangapatna MLA Babu Ramesh Bandisidde Gowda, Melukote MLA Darshan Puttannaiah, were among those present.
