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Demanding desilting of Sooladpu-Madivalasalu watercourse successful Brahmavar taluk of Udupi district, Raitha Dhwani of Kota threatened connected Friday that it volition signifier a mega protestation successful beforehand of Brahmavar Tahsildar’s bureau if nary enactment is taken wrong a fortnight.
Addressing presspersons successful Udupi, its president Jayaram Shetty said that arsenic the watercourse has not been dredged, Manoor, Kaikoor, Giliyar, Chitrapady, Karkada and Kavady villages successful the taluk are witnessing artificial flood each year. Though the substance has been taken up astatine the authoritative level, determination is nary determination to dredge the stream, helium alleged.
Artificial flood during rainy play affects hundreds of acres of workplace lands successful summation to affecting families surviving successful debased lying areas, Mr. Shetty said.
Giliyar-Belur-Kota-Saibrakatte roadworthy connectivity gets chopped disconnected during the floods, helium said.
“On December 16, 2024, we met Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar and apprised him of the concern arising retired of silt accumulation. Then Mr. Shivakumar wrote a enactment recommending the Karnataka Neeravari Nigama Limited (KNNL) engineers to instrumentality up the desilting enactment by earmarking ₹4.5 crore for the purpose. After this, we assisted the engineers from the KNNL successful preparing the estimation of the de-silting enactment and the elaborate estimation was sent to the Chief Engineer of KNNL, Upper Tunga Project Zone Shivamogga. But nary advancement has been truthful far,” helium said.
Mr. Shetty said that the substance has been discussed astatine the wide assemblage meetings of section six gram panchayats and Saligrama municipality panchayat and resolutions person been passed by them connected the request to dredge the stream.
