DC orders action against illegal water extraction as 15 Mandya villages face shortage

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Deputy Commissioner Kumar presiding implicit    a gathering  successful  Mandya connected  Monday.

Deputy Commissioner Kumar presiding implicit a gathering successful Mandya connected Monday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Amid rising interest implicit amerciable lifting of h2o from rivers and lakes utilizing pump sets, Mandya Deputy Commissioner Kumar connected Monday directed officials to ace down connected unauthorised h2o extraction adjacent arsenic drinking h2o is being supplied done backstage borewells successful 15 villages facing scarcity successful the district.

Presiding implicit a gathering of the District Disaster Management Authority successful Mandya connected Monday, Dr. Kumar said amerciable pumping of h2o from rivers, lakes and different waterbodies was unlawful and was worsening the drinking h2o situation successful respective areas.

He instructed tahsildars, Taluk Panchayat Executive Officers, CESC officials and constabulary unit to instantly sojourn riverbank locations and disconnect energy proviso to unauthorised pump sets.

Officials informed the gathering that drinking h2o is presently being supplied done backstage borewells successful 15 villages, portion tanker proviso has been arranged successful 2 villages. Dr. Kumar directed the officials to compulsorily sojourn severely affected villages, measure the crushed concern and resoluteness issues connected priority.

Dr. Kumar besides instructed officials to show borewell output levels and guarantee determination is nary shortage of drinking h2o till the extremity of summer. He told tahsildars, Taluk Panchayat Executive Officers and Rural Drinking Water Supply Department officials to enactment swiftly truthful that nary nationalist complaints originate connected h2o scarcity.

He asked the officials to instrumentality contiguous measures wherever required arsenic determination was nary shortage of funds for drinking h2o management.

The Deputy Commissioner besides directed authorities to inspect the functioning of h2o purification units and regularly trial h2o quality. “The territory had capable fodder availability for up to 40 weeks,” Dr. Kumar added.

Additional Deputy Commissioner Shivanandamurthy, Executive Engineer of Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Division N.G. Pramod Kumar, Joint Director of Agriculture Ashok, District Urban Development Cell Planning Director T.N. Narasimhamurthy, Deputy Director of Animal Husbandry Shivalingayya and different officials attended the meeting.

Published - May 11, 2026 07:05 p.m. IST

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